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Beautiful Ruins de Jess Walter

Beautiful Ruins: Penguin Essentials, cartea 113

Autor Jess Walter
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2019
'A monument to crazy love. Magic'New York Times

'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'

In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions thatBeautiful Ruinsanswers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner.

'Exhilarating. Very, very funny' The Times
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241986509
ISBN-10: 0241986508
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Essentials

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Just about the perfect summer read. It is intelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun. Reading hours fly by and reaching the final page feels like a genuine wrench
Ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny
Beautiful Ruinsis a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year
Romantic, very funny...Turbo-charged satire meets a Garcia Marquezesque love story. What's not to like?
Walter creates an epic here - one that took him 15 years to write. The end result, however, is well worth the wait
A sparkling summer read
Thoroughly enjoyable, a tender, funny, ridiculous tale which has love at its core and a keen satirical edge to cut through the lovely, lush romanticism
You're going to love this book
A brilliant, madcap meditation on fate
A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor
Thebeach read of the summer
Hilarious and compelling
Magic. Walter is a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humour . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart
Poignant, comical and marvellous
Larger-than-life characters, billowy romance and crafty satire ... Any book that includes Richard Burton as a character is fine by us
Cinematic and utterly romantic . . . the big beach read for summer
My absolute favourite read this year
A bravura feat
Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classicCleopatrais a playful imagining of emotional history and hidden lives just out of view. Be warned, this is a novel that may make any festive guests somewhat anti-social asI read it in two days flat

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The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon learns, an American starlet, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot—searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of a dozen unforgettable characters: the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the heroically preserved producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion—along with the husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, who populate their world in the decades that follow. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.