num_pages: 384
description: From the author of The New York Times best seller Possession , comes a highly acclaimed novel which captures in brilliant detail the life of one extended English family-and illuminates the choices they must make between domesticity and ambition, life and art.Stephanie Potter gives up a promising academic career to marry Daniel Orton, while her sister, Frederica, enters Cambridge, and her brother, Marcus, begins recovering from a nervous breakdown.
language: English
title: Still Life
titlecomplete: Still Life
genres: 20th Century, Modern, Historical Fiction, Historical, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 2401
series: The Frederica Quartet
publisher: Scribner