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 'A monument to crazy love. Magic' New York Times 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .' In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions that Beautiful Ruins answers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner. 'Exhilarating. Very, very funny' The Times

Product details

• Authors: Jess Walter, Walter Jess
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.06.2019
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9780241986509
• ISBN: 978-0-241-98650-9
• Pages: 352
• Dimensions (packing): 11.1 x 18.1 x 2.1 cm
• Series: Essential Penguin; Penguin Essentials > 113; Penguin Essentials; Essential Penguin
• Subjects: Romance, Hollywood, Jonathan Safran Foer, Truman Capote, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Literary, California, Richard Burton, Contemporary, Chick Lit, Jennifer Egan, Meg Wolitzer, 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, Romantic Fiction, top 10 fiction, post apocalyptic fiction, top ten fiction, hitorical, Isabella Hammad, ordinary people diana evans, a m homes, jess walter, Rachel Rhys, the chaperone, tangerine christine mangan, the female persuasion, fatal inheritance, after the party cressida connolly, we live in water, the parisian