Beautiful ruins
Walter, Jess, 1965-2019
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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 50 years before.
Main title:
Beautiful ruins / Jess Walter.
Author:
Walter, Jess, 1965-, author
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
368 pages : maps (black and white) ; 19 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published: New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
ISBN:
9780241986509 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3573.A4722834
Local class:
FIC
Language:
English
BRN:
2472346