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Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

Hardcover | Pages: 337 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 153016 Users | 15128 Reviews

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Title	:	Beautiful Ruins
Author	:	Jess Walter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 337 pages
Published	:	June 12th 2012 by Harper
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Italy. Romance. Audiobook. Contemporary. Book Club

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The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier. What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

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Original Title:	Beautiful Ruins
ISBN:	0061928127 (ISBN13: 9780061928123)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Pasquale Tursi, Pat Bender, Debra "Dee" Moore, Alvis Bender, Michael Deane, Claire Silver, Shane Wheeler
Setting:	Porto Vergogna,1962(Italy) Hollywood, California(United States) Seattle, Washington,1978(United States) …more Sandpoint, Idaho(United States) Edinburgh, Scotland,2008 …less
Literary Awards:	Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2012)

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Ratings: 3.68 From 153016 Users | 15128 Reviews

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What a marvelous novel! I thought this would be a fun and fast read, but there were surprising depths to this book that is part historical fiction, part insider-Hollywood, part redemption and part love story. The book opens on a tiny fishing village in Italy in 1962. An American actress comes to a small hotel to recuperate from an illness. The hotel owner, Pasquale, falls for her beauty and wants to help her. He will slowly learn her secrets and why she was sent to his village.The flashback

A couple weeks ago a friend told me that Jess Walter's "Beautiful Ruins" was the book of the summer. I walked straight to Barnes & Noble after we finished lunch to buy it. The man at the checkout counter said that all sorts of people had been buying this book. After all, it combines Italy in the 1960s with Hollywood then and now. It deals with love, disappointed expectations, responsibilities, movie magic, tragedy - the whole gamut of human drama. And yet, it's not love for me. There wasn't

"And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?" These past few weeks I have been sorting through my Goodreads shelves, writing up old reviews and having many arguments with myself over what makes a book five stars and which books should sit on my 'The Chosen Ones' shelf.1. Should I only rate a book five stars if I've read it more than once and been besotted with it on each occasion?2. Should I wait at least half of a year to

3.5 I had picked this up and started reading this twice before and just wasn't in the mood for it. After several wonderful reviews from my trusty goodread friends I picked it up again and this time I found it enjoyable. Never expected the sardonic humor that it held and I just absolutely adored Pasquale. He is one of those witty characters, with flaws, and oh so human that I love to read about. I did like the first part much more than the middle. In the beginning everything was being set up and



Some authors can juggle intertwined characters and a disjointed assembly of characters in a way that starts making sense, allowing them to pull all the characters and plot together effortlessly at the end (Kate Atkinson, among others). I did not feel that Jess Walter had that skill; the characters did not appeal to me; and if I hadn't been reading for my book group, I probably would not have bothered to finish.

Last week, I was dreading seeing my dental hygenist. Not just for the usual reasons - (I brush & floss 3 times a day, yet she has to scrape and scrape with her little implements, and it makes me feel like an unclean swine!) - but, because we always talk about books. I knew she would ask about what I was currently reading, and I had no clue how to describe the magic of Beautiful Ruins in between all that scraping and suctioning.Even now when my mouth is NOT crammed full of tubes and metal