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Still Life (Paperback)
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Still Life (Paperback)
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Loot Price R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a
big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the
ghost of E.M. Forster.
We just need to know what the heart’s capable of, Evelyn.
And do you know what it’s capable of?
I do. Grace and fury.
1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as the Allied troops
advance and bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an
extraordinary evening together.
Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner is a
sexagenarian art historian and possible spy. She has come to Italy to
salvage paintings from the wreckage and relive memories of the time she
encountered EM Forster and had her heart stolen by an Italian maid in a
particular Florentine room with a view.
These two unlikely people find kindred spirits in each other and
Evelyn’s talk of truth and beauty plants a seed in Ulysses’ mind that
will shape the trajectory of his life – and of those who love him – for
the next four decades.
Moving from the Tuscan Hills and piazzas of Florence, to the smog of
London’s East End, Still Life is a sweeping, joyful, richly-peopled
novel about beauty, love, family and fate.
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