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The story begins in 1962. Somewhere 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 views an apparition- a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.
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Beautiful Ruins, Jess Walter
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- Pubblicato
- 2019
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- Titolo
- Beautiful Ruins
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Jess Walter
- Editore
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0241986508
- ISBN13
- 9780241986509
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Letteratura romantica, Prosa storica, Narrativa contemporanea, Romance contemporaneo, Europa Meridionale, Italia, Attori e attrici, Los Angeles, Anni '60 del 20° secolo, Industria cinematografica
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2012
- Titolo originale
- Beautiful Ruins
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- The story begins in 1962. Somewhere 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 views an apparition- a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.