Beautiful Ruins

Informationen zum Autor Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions . Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family. Klappentext Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets , published by Penguin. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family. Zusammenfassung 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.

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Just about the perfect summer read. It is intelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun. Reading hours fly by and reaching the final page feels like a genuine wrench Sunday Times

Product details

• Authors: Jess Walter, Walter Jess
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.05.2013
• EAN: 9780670922659
• ISBN: 978-0-670-92265-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Viking; Penguin Essentials
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Hollywood, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Literary, California, Italy, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1960 to c 1969, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019