TY - GEN AU - Walter, Jess TI - Beautiful ruins: a novel SN - 9780061928178 U1 - 813.54 WAL PY - 2013/// CY - New York PB - Harper Perennial KW - Americans Italy Fiction KW - Amerikanisches Englisch KW - Italian innkeeper KW - Beautiful American starlet KW - Glittering world KW - Tenth Pass N1 - Includes acknowledgment N2 - 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. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/beautiful-ruins-jess-walter?variant=32207521415202 ER -