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PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100061928178
ISBN-139780061928178
eBay Product ID (ePID)122176347
Product Key Features
Book TitleBeautiful Ruins : a Novel
Number of Pages368 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicHistorical
Publication Year2013
GenreFiction
AuthorJess Walter
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
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ReviewsEntrancing…Walter's turns of phrase are as brilliant as his plot twists, making for a compelling, fun read., 'A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor.' (New York Times), [N]othing less than brilliant, a tour de force that crosses decades, continents, and genres, to powerful and often hilarious effect....A masterful novel of love, loss, and hard-won hope that satisfies on every level., His masterpiece . . . an interlocking, continent-hopping, decade-spanning novel with heart and pathos to burn, all big dreams, lost loves, deep longings and damn near perfect., A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor. . . . reimagines history in a package so appealing we'd be idiots not to buy it., Beautiful Runs is itself a showcase for Walter's outrageous literary gifts in virtually every genre and style. . .No wonder critics have been outdoing each other with superlatives. . ., Beautiful Ruins is satisfying and delicate, a spectacular story of love, frustration, selfish intent, and the patience of the human heart., Lyrical, heartbreaking, and funny . . . Walter closes the deal with such command that you begin to wonder why up till now he's not often been mentioned as one of the best novelists around. Beautiful Ruins might just correct that oversight., [A] high-wire feat of bravura storytelling. . . . [Walter's] mixture of pathos and comedy stirs the heart and amuses as it also rescues us from the all too human pain that is the motor of this complex and ever-evolving novel., Entrancing novel…Walter's turns of phrase are as brilliant as his plot twists, making for a compelling, fun read., 'A novel with pathos, piercing wit and, most important, the generous soul of a literary classic. . . . Walter has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors.' ( Boston Globe ), '[A] high-wire feat of bravura storytelling. . . . [Walter's] mixture of pathos and comedy stirs the heart and amuses as it also rescues us from the all too human pain that is the motor of this complex and ever-evolving novel.' (New York Times Book Review), Beautiful Ruins is satisfying and delicate, a spectacular story of love, frustration, selfish intent, and the patience of the human heart., A novel with pathos, piercing wit and, most important, the generous soul of a literary classic. . . . Walter has planted himself firmly in the first rank of American authors., This is a blockbuster, with romance, majesty, comedy, smarts, and a cast of thousands. There's lights, there's camera, there's action. If you want anything more from a novel than Jess Walter gives you in Beautiful Ruins, you're getting thrown out of the theater., This is a blockbuster, with romance, majesty, comedy, smarts, and a cast of thousands. There's lights, there's camera, there's action. If you want anything more from a novel than Jess Walter gives you in Beautiful Ruins , you're getting thrown out of the theater., ' Beautiful Ruins is satisfying and delicate, a spectacular story of love, frustration, selfish intent, and the patience of the human heart.' ( The Stranger ), A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor., His [Walter's] characters are long-suffering, prone to failure and sometimes at death's door. But the verve and enthusiasm of this novel, from its let's-go-everywhere structure to the comedy in the marrow of its sentences, are wholly life-affirming., Within a page-turner of a plot, these triumphantly vulnerable characters leap off the page to take up permanent residence in your inner life. The effect is so powerful that to be untouched by Beautiful Ruins might well be like having no inner life at all., A brilliant, madcap meditation on fate. . . . Walter's prose is a joy-funny, brash, witty and rich with ironic twists. He's taken all of the tricks of the postmodern novel and scoured out the cynicism, making for a novel that's life-affirming but never saccharine., Walter is a very, very funny writer and can do Hollywood satire with the best of them. But this is also a novel with a live, beating heart, full of sympathy for its characters and agut wisdom…You'll want to explore these Ruins., Walter vividly draws a world both tender and cutthroat, where ambition battles reality, daydreams fight doldrums and sometimes win., 'A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor.' ( New York Times ), [An] enchanting novel. . . Sweeping effortlessly back and forth between Italy and current-day Hollywood, and between various modes of storytelling, Walters builds a world that won't soon let you go.
SynopsisThe 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. , 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., 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. 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.
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- 27. Feb. 2020
Absorbing and compelling
A great story - or series of vignettes that are brought together with style and flair by the author Jess Walter.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 24. Mär. 2021
Very good title from a statement about Richard Berton being a "beautiful ruin".
I am happy with this book. Please be advised that I ordered another book from you called "On Tyranny". It was never delivered. Please investigate this matter and inform me ASAP.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Neu
- 18. Nov. 2020
okay
I am still reading it Not sure how compelling it will be.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 25. Feb. 2016
Only half way through. Scenery description beautiful
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- 11. Aug. 2025
beautiful prose
the writing is compellingBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 08. Aug. 2019
Very prompt
Very promptBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 02. Apr. 2025
excellent shape...
excellent shapeBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
