According to Booklist: In this thoroughly warm\, witty\, entertaining\, and character-driven novel spanning decades\ , Winman shares bighearted ideas about friendship\, love\, art\, and commu nity. On a fateful night during WWII\, young soldier Ulysses meets Evelyn\ , a sixty-something art historian arrived in Italy to salvage paintings. T hey are absolutely lovestruck&mdash\;platonically\, as Ulysses is in love with Peg and Evelyn is a lesbian. From that night\, their lives will circl e around each other and take unexpected turns that lead both Brits to Flor ence after the war. It is there that the utterly charming Ulysses will fin d his people\, while being surrounded by history\, art\, and food (all ric hly and lovingly described). While Still \;Life is slim on plot and he avy on coincidence\, it is hard to envision a reader who won't be smitten by Winman's characters and their banter\, like old Cressy\, who takes advi ce from a tree\, and Claude\, the blue parrot who may be Shakespeare reinc arnated. These lives may not be the stuff of legend\, but they are still&n bsp\;life. \;
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