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Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins
Author: Jess Walter
The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dyin...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061928123
ISBN-10: 0061928127
Publication Date: 6/26/2012
Pages: 337
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3.7 stars, based on 49 ratings
Publisher: HarperCollins
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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This was one of the most enjoyable books I have read in a while. There were numerous plot lines but they all reconciled themselves by the end of the book. It brought together real people and fiction characters in a real and understandable way. You can't go wrong with this book.
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What do the Donner Party, Sand Point Idaho and Richard Burton all have in common? This book. A plethora of titillating characters, and a profusion of problematic events to discourage even the most tired of readers from putting this book down until late in the evening. Italy, Scotland, Idaho, Hollywood and more all play a part in this story of love and trust gone astray.


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