Beautiful Ruins
A Novel
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · April 2, 2013
The #1 New York Times bestseller—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.
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- Who it’s for
- A polished, serious read with a tender pull and a dry, observant wit.
- Genres
- 20th-Century Historical Romance, Multiple-Timeline Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Published
- HarperCollins, April 2, 2013
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The #1 New York Times bestseller—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.
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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.
Elegant Fiction
A polished, serious read with a tender pull and a dry, observant wit.
Come here for
- literary texture
- love with a side-eye
Expect
- sustained narrative flow
- book-club friendly resonance
Where it sits
| 20th-Century Historical Romance | 57% |
|---|---|
| Literary Fiction | 36% |
| Multiple-Timeline Fiction | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Family Sagas
- Historical Fiction
- Literary Fiction
- Fantasy Romance
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- Time-Travel Romance
- Sci-Fi Romance
- Scottish Romance
- 20th-Century Historical Romance
- Authors
- Jess Walter
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- April 2, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Family Sagas