Beautiful Ruins is a glorious read for book lovers. From the
moment you pick up the novel, it conjures a world that you long to enter. The
teal-blue Ligurian Sea laps against a jagged coastline filled with
candy-colored houses and open windows. At first glance, you’re dying to get
inside those houses and find out what’s going on.
Jess Walter has quietly and expertly built a career over six novels that puts him at the forefront of great American writers.
Jess Walter has written a sumptuous epic about the real
people who make art, spinning illusion for fun, profit, and meaning. There are
screen actors, a novelist, and Pasquale, an innkeeper, who keeps his patrons
fed and watered on homemade wine and dreams. Among all the shimmer and hope are
the lost souls who long to create something, anything. And just as Jess Walter
introduces us to these characters, he follows them for fifty years. The journey
will delight and captivate you.
You will be crushed when the novelist, Alvis, tracks down a
woman whom he believed saved him in his youth, only to take a long walk down a
dark hallway into a room where everything he believes and all his hopes shatter
in one exchange. Jess Walter can break your heart in one conversation.
If you love the ancient charms of the Italian coast on the
Ligurian Sea, if you long for Edinburgh and its cold rain and distant hot sun,
and if you love stories of the dream factory that is Hollywood, you will not be
able to part from this book until you are finished reading it. Even then, for
months afterward, you’ll keep it close so you can reread a passage here and
there that moved you.
It’s all here, the illusion and reality, the joy and the
shame of the creative life, of life itself. The ingenue Dee, the producer
Michael, and the D-girl Claire take you into the world of making movies, the
expectations and disappointments, and in an ingenious turn, the author pins the
hem of the action with real Hollywood stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard
Burton, who are engaging in a drama of their own in Rome.
Jess Walter has quietly and expertly built a career over six novels that puts him at the forefront of great American writers.
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