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Jun 12, 2012 · Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, 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. Show more. Genres Fiction Historical Fiction Italy Romance Audiobook ...
Beautiful Ruins is a 2012 bestselling novel by Jess Walter.It is his sixth novel. The novel is a social satire critiquing Hollywood culture. Though not the explicit focus of the novel, receiving very little direct appearances in the novel, the characters' lives revolve around Elizabeth Taylor and her role in the movie Cleopatra, and the subsequent love affair between Taylor and Richard Burton.
“Beautiful Ruins” is Jess Walter’s sixth novel. He is a bold and funny writer who successfully surfed the zeitgeist in his visceral 9/11 novel, “The Zero” (2006), a finalist for a ...
Beautiful Ruins. "A high-wire feat of bravura storytelling ... You're going to love this book …. The surprising and witty novel of social criticism that flows away from its lush, romantic opening offers so much more than just entertainment ... stirs the heart and amuses as it also rescues us from the all too human pain that is the motor of ...
Apr 2, 2013 · Jess Walter. Jess Walter is the author of ten books, most recently the story collect The Angel of Rome (2022) and the national bestselling novel The Cold Millions (2020). His novel Beautiful Ruins (2012) was a #1 New York Times bestseller. He was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award for The Zero and winner of the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe ...
Jun 7, 2012 · Walter has built his book around “Cleopatra” as a monument to crazy love. BEAUTIFUL RUINS. By Jess Walter. 337 pages. Harper. $25.99. A version of this article appears in print on , Section C ...
Jun 12, 2012 · Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard RussoThe acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in ...
