Beautiful Ruins - (P.S.) by Jess Walter (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller "The Financial Lives of the Poets" returns with his funniest and most romantic 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 50 years later.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> 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.</strong></p><p>The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller <em>The Financial Lives of the Poets </em>returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>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 <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of <em>Cleopatra</em> to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor. . . . reimagines history in a package so appealing we'd be idiots not to buy it."--<em>Library Journal </em>(starred review)<br><br>"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 a gut wisdom...You'll want to explore these Ruins."--<b><i>Newsday</i></b><br><br>"<i>Beautiful Ruins</i> is satisfying and delicate, a spectacular story of love, frustration, selfish intent, and the patience of the human heart."--<b><i>The Stranger</i></b><br><br>"<i>Beautiful Runs</i> 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. . ."--<b>Nashville Scene</b><br><br>"[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."--<b>Paula McLain, author of <i>The Paris Wife</i></b><br><br>"[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."--<b><i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>"[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."--<b>Ben Fountain, author of <i>Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk</i></b><br><br>"A beautiful narrative . . . This writer is a genius of the modern American moment."--<b><i>Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br><br>"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."--<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i> (starred review)</b><br><br>"A great getaway of a novel."--<b><i>People</i></b><br><br>"A marvel, an absolute gem of a beach read that is both hilarious and heartbreaking."--<b>Huffington Post</b><br><br>"A monument to crazy love . . . Walter [is] a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humor."--<b><i>New York Times</b></i><br><br>"Beautiful . . . A shining, imaginative tale . . . <i>Beautiful Ruins</i> shows novelists how it is done."--<b><i>The Plain Dealer</i></b><br><br>"Combines satisfying, old-fashioned storytelling with a modern sensibility."--<b>Becky Aikman</b><br><br>"Entrancing...Walter's turns of phrase are as brilliant as his plot twists, making for a compelling, fun read."--<i><b>People</i></b><br><br>"Expertly scratches the seasonal itch for both literary depth and dazzle."--<b><i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><br>"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."--<b>Salon</b><br><br>"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."--<b><i>Minneapolis Star Tribune</i></b><br><br>"It is a powerful and lush book."--<b>Selma Blair, the </i>New York Post</i></b><br><br>"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. <i>Beautiful Ruins</i> might just correct that oversight."--<b><i>Kansas City Star</i></b><br><br>"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 <i>Beautiful Ruins</i>, you're getting thrown out of the theater."--<b>Daniel Handler, author of <i>Why We Broke Up</i> and creator of Lemony Snicket</b><br><br>"Walter vividly draws a world both tender and cutthroat, where ambition battles reality, daydreams fight doldrums and sometimes win."--<b><i>Interview</i></b><br><br>"Well-constructed...quirky and entertaining tale of greed, treachery, and love."--<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br><br>"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 <i>Beautiful Ruins</i> might well be like having no inner life at all."--<b>Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of <i>36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction</i></b><br><br>"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<br><br>"A literary miracle."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air<br>
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