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Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Hardcover | Pages: 337 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 153016 Users | 15128 Reviews

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Title	:	Beautiful Ruins
Author	:	Jess Walter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	June 12th 2012 by Harper
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Romance. Audiobook. Contemporary. Book Club

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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 dying.

And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.

What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow.

Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

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Original Title:	Beautiful Ruins
ISBN:	0061928127 (ISBN13: 9780061928123)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pasquale Tursi, Pat Bender, Debra "Dee" Moore, Alvis Bender, Michael Deane, Claire Silver, Shane Wheeler
Setting:	Porto Vergogna,1962(Italy) Hollywood, California(United States) Seattle, Washington,1978(United States) …more Sandpoint, Idaho(United States) Edinburgh, Scotland,2008 …less
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012)

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What a marvelous novel! I thought this would be a fun and fast read, but there were surprising depths to this book that is part historical fiction, part insider-Hollywood, part redemption and part love story. The book opens on a tiny fishing village in Italy in 1962. An American actress comes to a small hotel to recuperate from an illness. The hotel owner, Pasquale, falls for her beauty and wants to help her. He will slowly learn her secrets and why she was sent to his village.The flashback

Heart-Stabbing Elaboration of Beauty I kept this book on my shelf untouched for nearly 4 years after I couldn't make it past page 20. In April, with the spring weather, I decided to dust off its pretty jacket and read it. So many have reviewed this novel in the time since I bought this that I doubt many will even read this review. But ... I just feel compelled to add...I was wowed, nearly speechless by the adductively alluring setting, ruins welling within me even now, months after my

"Isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?"Yes. Yes indeed.This isn't quite five-star material, but it was so touching and original and unexpectedly funny that I won't quibble over imperfections.

A favorable review today in The New York Times said Jess Walters new book is like a film script, but to my way of thinking it is more like Walter as a one-man performance artist, who suddenly pulls all kinds of horns, drums, bells and other props out of his bottomless pockets to illustrate a point, to make us laugh, to break into our attention and to declare: are we entirely mad? His work is brilliantly interpreted and performed by Edoardo Ballerini on audio, and to hear the thick and heavy

A fast fun read that dabbles, mostly successfully, in a multitude of voices, genres and times. I found it consistently fun, if never more deeply meaningful. The book seemed to want to say something profound about love, hope, doing the right thing, and (centrally) I think, about knowing our place in life - not wanting what is more, in love or career, than we are "meant to have". (Perhaps the most profoundly Italian thing about the work). Nothing quite got to the heart level for me, I was amused

Preconcetti sventato ancora una volta!Whoever designed the cover of this novel and came up with its title (because I refuse to believe either of these disasters were Jess Walters doing) must have had one thing in mind: make this book appear to be as much of a chick-lit beach read as possible. And yes, while there are certainly elements of the chick-lit beach read heresome tender relationships, a sprinkle of sentimentality, a romance or twelveit would be highly unfair to categorize it as so,

I know I'm in the minority here and late for the party but I didn't like Beautiful Ruins. I actually couldn't finish it. I found it boring and I didn't like any of the characters.