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Beautiful Ruins (Paperback)
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Beautiful Ruins (Paperback)
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List price R215
Loot Price R172
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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins
is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern
Hollywood studio. 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.
'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New
York Times 'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist
'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire 'Beautiful Ruins is a novel
unlike any other you're likely to read this year' Nick Hornby, The
Believer
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