Beautiful Ruins (Us Ed)

Author: Jess Walter

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Price : $30.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780061928178
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint : Harper Perennial
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Weight (g) : 0.272
Publication date : April 2013
Dimensions : 203mm X 135mm X 23mm
Produced in : United States
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Author : Jess Walter
Series : P.S.
Bind : Paperback / softback
Edition : 413
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 813.54
Pages : 368
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Description

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 Cleopatra 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.

Reviews

"Combines satisfying, old-fashioned storytelling with a modern sensibility."--Becky Aikman

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