Still Life: A GMA Book Club Pick: A Novel

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A Good Morning America Book Club Pick

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 sink 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 intent on salvaging paintings from the ruins. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and paint a course of events that will shape Ulysses’s life for the next four decades.

Returning home to London, Ulysses reimmerses himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentrics—all the while carrying with him his Italian evocations. So, when an unexpected inheritance brings him back to where it all began, Ulysses knows better than to tempt fate: he must return 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.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 480 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0593330765
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0593330760
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.44 x 0.95 x 8.18 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #13,245 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #15 in World War II Historical Fiction #136 in Literary Fiction (Books) #418 in Family Life Fiction (Books)
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