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Beautiful Ruins : A Novel
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Beautiful Ruins
Author(s): Jess Walter
Review(s):
“A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor.”
“Walter is a very, very funny writer and can do Hollywood satire with the best of them. But this is also a novel with a live, beating heart, full of sympathy for its characters and a gut wisdom…You’ll want to explore these Ruins.”
“Walter vividly draws a world both tender and cutthroat, where ambition battles reality, daydreams fight doldrums and sometimes win.”
“A marvel, an absolute gem of a beach read that is both hilarious and heartbreaking.”
“Expertly scratches the seasonal itch for both literary depth and dazzle.”
“Entrancing…Walter’s turns of phrase are as brilliant as his plot twists, making for a compelling, fun read.”
“Lyrical, heartbreaking, and funny . . . Walter closes the deal with such command that you begin to wonder why up till now he’s not often been mentioned as one of the best novelists around. Beautiful Ruins might just correct that oversight.”
“Beautiful . . . A shining, imaginative tale . . . Beautiful Ruins shows novelists how it is done.”
“His [Walter’s] characters are long-suffering, prone to failure and sometimes at death’s door. But the verve and enthusiasm of this novel, from its let’s-go-everywhere structure to the comedy in the marrow of its sentences, are wholly life-affirming.”
“A beautiful narrative . . . This writer is a genius of the modern American moment.”
ISBN: 9780061928178
Author(s): Jess Walter
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.
Review(s):
“A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor.”
“Walter is a very, very funny writer and can do Hollywood satire with the best of them. But this is also a novel with a live, beating heart, full of sympathy for its characters and a gut wisdom…You’ll want to explore these Ruins.”
“Walter vividly draws a world both tender and cutthroat, where ambition battles reality, daydreams fight doldrums and sometimes win.”
“A marvel, an absolute gem of a beach read that is both hilarious and heartbreaking.”
“Expertly scratches the seasonal itch for both literary depth and dazzle.”
“Entrancing…Walter’s turns of phrase are as brilliant as his plot twists, making for a compelling, fun read.”
“Lyrical, heartbreaking, and funny . . . Walter closes the deal with such command that you begin to wonder why up till now he’s not often been mentioned as one of the best novelists around. Beautiful Ruins might just correct that oversight.”
“Beautiful . . . A shining, imaginative tale . . . Beautiful Ruins shows novelists how it is done.”
“His [Walter’s] characters are long-suffering, prone to failure and sometimes at death’s door. But the verve and enthusiasm of this novel, from its let’s-go-everywhere structure to the comedy in the marrow of its sentences, are wholly life-affirming.”
“A beautiful narrative . . . This writer is a genius of the modern American moment.”
ISBN: 9780061928178