Beautiful Ruins
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241963012 (024196301X)
ASIN: 024196301X
Publish date: 2013-05-02
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
This story begins in 1962 in a tiny coastline village of Porta Vergogna when actress, Dee Moray arrives by boat for a holiday. The hotel's owner is Pasquale a shy young man in awe of this beauty that has come to stay with them. Pasquale's widow mother and crazy aunt make for some lively banter as ...