# Still Life

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- Book: [Still Life](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-wicomb/still-life) ([Still Life.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-wicomb/still-life.md))
- Authors: [Zoe Wicomb](https://www.bookquiver.com/zoe-wicomb)
- Publisher: peninsula
- ISBN: 978-19-1351-210-1
- Pages: 336
- Published: 2022-05-26
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Juggling with our perception of time and reality, Still Life tells the story of an author struggling to write a biography of long-forgotten Scottish poet and abolitionist Thomas Pringle. A multitude of voices across time, place and the lines of fiction and history - From the spectre of Mary Prince to Virginia Woolf's own Sir Nicholas Green - vie for the reader's attention. Their adventures through time and space, from Victorian South Africa and London to the author's desk in Glasgow in the present day, offer a poignant exploration of colonial history and racial oppression.