{"product_id":"beautiful-ruins-p-b-w2","title":"Jess Walter: Beautiful Ruins [2013] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe No. 1 New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJess Walter's \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, \u003ci\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eMagic\u003c\/b\u003e...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel \u003cb\u003eshot in sparkly Technicolor\u003c\/b\u003e'  \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Hilarious and compelling\u003c\/b\u003e'  \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Beautiful Ruins \u003c\/i\u003eis \u003cb\u003ea novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year'\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNick Hornby\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walter, Jess","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44330392518946,"sku":"9780670922659","price":11.25,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47025740218707,"sku":"XG80670922659","price":2.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47025740251475,"sku":"XV80670922659","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":48881665114451,"sku":"XE80670922659","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/walter-jess-jess-walter-beautiful-ruins-2013-paperback-59200806682963.jpg?v=1727833457","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/beautiful-ruins-p-b-w2","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}