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Title	:	Beautiful Ruins
Author	:	Jess Walter
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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"Isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?"Yes. Yes indeed.This isn't quite five-star material, but it was so touching and original and unexpectedly funny that I won't quibble over imperfections.

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

I got a table at the Rainbow Room I told my wife I'd be home soon Big ships are approaching the docks I got my hi-fi boom box Mashed potatoes in cellophane I see my life going down the drain Hold me baby and don't let go Pretty girls help to soften the blowPalm trees; the flat broke disease And LA has got me on my knees I am the bluest of blues Every day a different way to lose The Go GetterI'll be the Go GetterThat's my planThat's who I amThe Go GetterYeah the Go GetterThe Go Getter The Black

"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

I would never have suspected that a novel about a small town actress, a decrepit Italian hotel, an ambitious writer, a crass Hollywood producer and Richard Burton would have me turning to grab this book at every spare opportunity, and allow me to stretch my lunch hour without guilt to finish the book.In the early 60s, Pasquale has taken over his family's completely out of date hotel in a village so small that tourist boats never come there -- except one day, when one does, and deposits a

A fast fun read that dabbles, mostly successfully, in a multitude of voices, genres and times. I found it consistently fun, if never more deeply meaningful. The book seemed to want to say something profound about love, hope, doing the right thing, and (centrally) I think, about knowing our place in life - not wanting what is more, in love or career, than we are "meant to have". (Perhaps the most profoundly Italian thing about the work). Nothing quite got to the heart level for me, I was amused

I know I'm in the minority here and late for the party but I didn't like Beautiful Ruins. I actually couldn't finish it. I found it boring and I didn't like any of the characters.