01807cam a2200301 i 4500 532078829 TxAuBib 20211110120000.0 210715s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021034298 9780593330753 hbk. 0593330757 hbk. TxAuBib rda Winman, Sarah,. Still life / Sarah Winman. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2021] 452 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A novel"--Dust jacket. "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."--Publisher's description. 20211110. World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Fiction. Soldiers Fiction. Art historians Fiction. Historical fiction.