Still Life - Sarah Winman - 2021 (Fiction) [Audiobook] (miok)

Still Life - Sarah Winman - 2021



By: Sarah Winman
Narrated by: Sarah Winman
Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 11-02-21
Language: English
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 mono



A captivating, bighearted, richly tapestried story of people brought together by love, war, art, flood, and the ghost of E. M. Forster, by the celebrated author of Tin Man.

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses's life for the next four decades.

As Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot — a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics — he carries his time in Italy with him. And when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate, and returns to the Tuscan hills.

With beautiful prose, extraordinary tenderness, and bursts of humor and light, Still Life is a sweeping portrait of unforgettable individuals who come together to make a family, and a deeply drawn celebration of beauty and love in all its forms.

©2021 Sarah Winman (P)2021 HarperCollins Audio

Critic Reviews

One of The Millions's Most Anticipated Books of 2021

“An epic about a family of friends who make the city of Florence their home in the mid-to-late 20th century.... [The] narrative feels almost breathless at times, in part due to the lack of quotation marks around the dialogue, which makes it feel as if the unknown narrator is relating a long story deep into the night.... An unexpected treatise on the many forms love and beauty can take, set against the backdrop of Florence.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)

“In this thoroughly warm, witty, entertaining, and character-driven novel spanning decades, Winman shares bighearted ideas about friendship, love, art, and community.... It is hard to envision a reader who won’t be smitten by Winman’s characters and their banter, like old Cressy, who takes his advice from a tree, and Claude, the blue parrot who may be Shakespeare reincarnated. These lives may not be the stuff of legend, but they are still life.” (Booklist, starred review)





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