Beautiful Ruins
Autor Jess Walteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 mai 2013
Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere 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.
Gloriously 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.
'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times
'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist
'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire
'Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year' Nick Hornby, The Believer
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| Penguin Books – 5 iun 2019 | 49.33 lei 21-33 zile | +21.34 lei 7-13 zile |
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| Harpercollins – 2 apr 2013 | 98.68 lei 3-5 săpt. | |
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| HarperCollins Publishers – 11 iun 2012 | 144.14 lei Precomandă |
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780670922659
ISBN-10: 067092265X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 067092265X
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.26 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Recenzii
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 Ruins is 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
The beach 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
The beach read of 2013
Think Il Postino with a walk-on part for a comically drunk Richard Burton
Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classic Cleopatra is 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 as I read it in two days flat
Ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny
Beautiful Ruins is 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
The beach 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
The beach read of 2013
Think Il Postino with a walk-on part for a comically drunk Richard Burton
Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classic Cleopatra is 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 as I 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.
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.