The #1 New York Times bestseller, now available in paperback--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.

--People

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/02/2013
ISBN: 9780061928178
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d

Review Citations: People Weekly 04/08/2013 pg. 55
New York Times Book Review 04/21/2013 pg. 26
New York Times Book Review 04/06/2014 pg. 31