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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
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Beautiful Ruins

A Novel

HarperCollins · 2013-04-02

Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

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Who It's For

  • Good for readers who enjoy Romance/Historical/20th Century
  • Good for readers interested in book club
  • Great for readers who want relationship-centered stories.

What You Get

  • Themes: Travel, Love, Literary.
  • Reading lane: Historical and People & Places.
  • Publisher: HarperCollins.

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What we read3

  • Romance/Historical/20th Century

    79%
  • Young Adult Fiction / People & Places / Europe

    78%
  • FICTION / Romance / Historical / American

    77%

About This Book

The #1 New York Times bestseller—Jess Walter’s “absolute masterpiece” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in contemporary Hollywood. The 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. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary...

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The #1 New York Times bestseller—Jess Walter’s “absolute masterpiece” (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in contemporary Hollywood. The 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. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, Beautiful Ruins is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.

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