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Beautiful ruins

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Gloriously inventive, filled with surprises, ‘Beautiful Ruins’ is a novel about love and fame, dreams and reality.

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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller

Jess 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 TechnicolorBooklist

‘Hilarious and compellingEsquire

‘Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you’re likely to read this year’ Nick Hornby, The Believer

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Additional information

Weight 0.255 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

337

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K