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Harper
June 2012
On Sale: June 12, 2012
352 pages
ISBN: 0061928127
EAN: 9780061928123
Kindle: B006NZDO40
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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.
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