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Does Life Imitate Art or Is It the Other Way Around?
Continue to LifeBy Sarah Winman Historic fiction hits closest to the bone when it illuminates what we know to be accurate: that we move by means of cash-H Record, but in each instant, the highlight shines brightest on the unremarkable specifics of our own life. Momentous situations manifest, and in some cases we’re caught up in them, but we are — at the same time, inescapably — the key characters in our very own stories. Sarah Winman’s sweeping “Still Life” is a parade of tiny tales, intimate connections and sophisticated people whose life illuminate the tedium and cataclysms of the 20th century. Ulysses Temper is the modest, searching, wandering protagonist.…
