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Beautiful Ruins
Beautiful Ruins
Author: Jess Walter
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 Cleop...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780062349552
ISBN-10: 0062349554
Publication Date: 9/29/2015
Pages: 416
Edition: Limited
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Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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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