Beautiful Ruins A Novel

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Synopsis

The No. 1 New York Times BestsellerJess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before.Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire

Book details

Series:
P. S. Series (Book 113)
Author:
Jess Walter
ISBN:
9780241963005
Related ISBNs:
9780670922659, 9780241985250, 9780241986509
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages:
352
Reading age:
18+
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2021-01-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2013
Copyright by:
Penguin Books Ltd 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction