{"product_id":"9780670922659","title":"Beautiful Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Walter, Jess, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/05\/2013,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Penguin USA,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Penguin Putnam Inc,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780670922659\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eThe No. 1 New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The story begins in 1962.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSomewhere 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 fifty years before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstone's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44187020394733,"sku":"9780670922659","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780670922659.jpg?v=1690877437","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780670922659","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}