Beautiful Ruins Paperback - 2013
by Jess Walter
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller "The Financial Lives of the Poets" returns with his funniest and most romantic novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, "Beautiful Ruins" is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood 50 years later.
From the rear cover
From the moment it opens--on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat--Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising--a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.
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- Title Beautiful Ruins
- Author Jess Walter
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
- Date 2013-04-02
- ISBN 9780061928178 / 0061928178
- Weight 0.64 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.3 x 0.8 in (20.45 x 13.46 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Motion picture actors and actresses, Americans - Italy
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- New York Times Book Review, 04/06/2014, Page 31
- People Weekly, 04/08/2013, Page 55
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