Beautiful Ruins

Author(s): Jess Walter

Fiction.

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.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9780241986509
  • : Penguin UK
  • : Penguin UK
  • : August 2019
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jess Walter
  • : Paperback
  • : 1909
  • : English
  • : 813.6