Beautiful Ruins
Autor Jess Walteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 mai 2013
Jess Walter'sBeautiful Ruinsis a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.
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 Ruinsis 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.
'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart'New York Times
'A novelshot in sparkly Technicolor'Booklist
'Hilarious and compelling'Esquire
'Beautiful Ruinsisa novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year'Nick Hornby,The Believer
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780670922659
ISBN-10: 067092265X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 067092265X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
Just
about
the
perfect
summer
read.
It
is
intelligent
and
thought-provoking,
but
also
a
lot
of
fun.
Reading
hours
fly
by
and
reaching
the
final
page
feels
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wrench
Ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny
Beautiful Ruinsis a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year
Romantic, very funny...Turbo-charged satire meets a Garcia Marquezesque love story. What's not to like?
Walter creates an epic here - one that took him 15 years to write. The end result, however, is well worth the wait
A sparkling summer read
Thoroughly enjoyable, a tender, funny, ridiculous tale which has love at its core and a keen satirical edge to cut through the lovely, lush romanticism
You're going to love this book
A brilliant, madcap meditation on fate
A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor
Thebeach read of the summer
Hilarious and compelling
Magic. Walter is a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humour . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart
Poignant, comical and marvellous
Larger-than-life characters, billowy romance and crafty satire ... Any book that includes Richard Burton as a character is fine by us
Cinematic and utterly romantic . . . the big beach read for summer
My absolute favourite read this year
A bravura feat
The beach read of 2013
ThinkIl Postinowith a walk-on part for a comically drunk Richard Burton
Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classicCleopatrais a playful imagining of emotional history and hidden lives just out of view. Be warned, this is a novel that may make any festive guests somewhat anti-social asI read it in two days flat
Ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny
Beautiful Ruinsis a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year
Romantic, very funny...Turbo-charged satire meets a Garcia Marquezesque love story. What's not to like?
Walter creates an epic here - one that took him 15 years to write. The end result, however, is well worth the wait
A sparkling summer read
Thoroughly enjoyable, a tender, funny, ridiculous tale which has love at its core and a keen satirical edge to cut through the lovely, lush romanticism
You're going to love this book
A brilliant, madcap meditation on fate
A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor
Thebeach read of the summer
Hilarious and compelling
Magic. Walter is a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humour . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart
Poignant, comical and marvellous
Larger-than-life characters, billowy romance and crafty satire ... Any book that includes Richard Burton as a character is fine by us
Cinematic and utterly romantic . . . the big beach read for summer
My absolute favourite read this year
A bravura feat
The beach read of 2013
ThinkIl Postinowith a walk-on part for a comically drunk Richard Burton
Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classicCleopatrais a playful imagining of emotional history and hidden lives just out of view. Be warned, this is a novel that may make any festive guests somewhat anti-social asI read it in two days flat
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From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising—a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.