Beautiful Ruins

Zusatztext “[An] enchanting novel. . . Sweeping effortlessly back and forth between Italy and current-day Hollywood, and between various modes of storytelling, Walters builds a world that won’t soon let you go.” Informationen zum Autor Jess Walter  is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers  So Far Gone, The Cold Millions , and  Beautiful Ruins , the National Book Award Finalist  The Zero , and  Citizen Vince,  winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in  The Angel of Rome  and  We Live in Water , has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in  Best American Short Stories . As a reporter, he was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Ruby Ridge. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. Klappentext From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising—a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams. Zusammenfassung 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.  Inhaltsverzeichnis ENG ...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jess Walter
• Edition: Harper Perennial USA
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 02.04.2013
• EAN: 9780061928178
• ISBN: 978-0-06-192817-8
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 25 mm
• Thème: P.S.
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Romance, Science Fiction, Historical fiction, Scotland, Family life fiction, Relating to early adulthood, United States of America, USA, Fiction: general and literary, Holidays and celebrations, Holidays, events and seasonal interest, Romance: time travel, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION: Holidays, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Scottish, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, FICTION: Multiple Timelines, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Modern and Contemporary romance