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Still Life (2021)

par Sarah Winman

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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
 
A Veranda Magazine 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 Parotâ??a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentricsâ??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.&
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A dear friend Kate tentatively lent me Still Life. It's been sitting on my shelf for a few months as I’d put it down after a few pages because it was not the right time. When is the right time?

This time (the right time) I found myself flooded-in (due to heavy rain) and ready for Sarah Winman to take me wherever she wanted. In part, this was because in the 1980s we'd been caretakers of a converted 9th century monastery in Tuscany and knew Florence and many of the towns around it, not quite as intimately as Sarah Winman but well enough to enjoy revisiting these haunts. Of course, the flood section resonated. In part also, she has a feel for dialogue, character and literary cross-references (Forster Violet Trefusis etc). Somehow, Claude the talking parrot took me back to Enid Blighton's Adventure series not to mention all the food and wine. By the time Arturo’s will appeared, I found myself looking back to the right side of the page where I remembered Evelyn’s mention of the Cockney landlady. It was page 7 and I was hooked. Isn’t it interesting how we can recall the physical position of texts if not the page?

As this story of love and loss and life unfolded,
Passing time. But still life in all its beauty and complexity. p. 435
I was moved to tears more often than I'll record in this little reflection. Half-way through the book, it felt that everyone had lost something that completed them - just as the amazing Claude spontaneously lost feathers. There were several times I had to put the book down for tears.

In many respects the book ended and losses were resolved about 100 pages before the set piece All About Evelyn. I'm not complaining at all. The homage to A Room with a View seemed entirely appropriate to a book about the English in Florence.
This is a richly layered book in which the author reminds us of her presence and I liked her presence
If only they'd known that 600 metres away underground, Jem Gunnerslake was passing books to a young woman who was once called kid but was now called Alys. But these revelations would have to wait. For now, an air of contentment hung over the scene. p. 325

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  simonpockley | Feb 25, 2024 |
DNF due to lack of quotation marks and ADHD not mixing well.
  Tara_Calaby | Jan 27, 2024 |
Wonderfully narrated audiobook, read by the author. My favorite part was the flood in 1966. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
Almost gave up because of the lack of quote marks. But made it.
  robinmnz | Dec 17, 2023 |
This long book about love, friendship, and art is also an homage to Florence, Italy. The narrative begins in WWII Italy when Evelyn Skinner and Ulysses Temper meet during the liberation of Italy. During a brief leave in Florence, Ulysses saves the life of a man contemplating suicide.
After the war, Ulysses returns to England and reunites with a cadre of old friends. In a few years time he learns that he has inherited the estate of the man whose life he saved. Ulysses and eventually of his cadre move to Florence where he (they?) run a pensione.
The book is really about the relationships among these friends. A family constructed from love and caring rather than by blood. And it is a tribute to Florence, Italy.
The story covers most of the 20th century in the city in a round about way.

I read this book for our book discussion group. Left to my own devices, I would have given up after the first chapter. I did plug on and didn't really appreciate the book until after page 300. It's an okay story. I get what the author is trying to do. But there are two annoying things about this book:
1. there is no dialogue punctuation. This becomes really confusing to the reader when there are more than two people in the dialogue.
2. the book is 450 pages. It is written in a tiny typeface in relatively low contrast ink. I ended up purchasing the Kindle version just to keep from going blind while reading the book.
Has ink gotten so expensive that we can't have dialogue punctuation, a decent size typeface, and dark ink on the page? ( )
  tangledthread | Nov 30, 2023 |
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Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
 
A Veranda Magazine 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 Parotâ??a motley mix of pub crawlers and eccentricsâ??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.&

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