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Temps de fonctionnement: 14:54 hrsVoix de: Sarah WinmanPublisher:Penguin Audio, 2021Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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Certified Accessible By: National Network for Equitable Library ServiceTemps de fonctionnement: 14:54 hrsVoix de: Sarah WinmanPublisher:BC Libraries Cooperative, 2023Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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- Author: Winman, SarahContributor: Winman, SarahEdition: UnabridgedDate:Created2021Summary:
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 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.
Genre:Sujets: Art historians | Fate and fatalism | Life change events | Reminiscing | Social aspects | Soldiers | StrangersOriginal Publisher: New York, Penguin AudioLanguage(s): EnglishISBN: 9780593453346