{"product_id":"still-life-9780593330753","title":"Still Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Good Morning America Book Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Veranda Magazine Book      Club Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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 \u003ci\u003eTin Man.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTuscany, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAs Ulysses returns home to London, reimmersing himself in his crew at The Stoat and Parot—a motley mix of pub crawlers and e","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525792932183,"sku":"9780593330753","price":22.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593330753.jpg?v=1731861794","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/still-life-9780593330753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}