num_pages: 337
description: The best novel of the year.  Maureen Corrigan NPR's Fresh AirA #1 New York Times bestseller this absolute masterpiece (Richard Russo) is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in Hollywood. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood this is a dazzling yet deeply human roller coaster of a novel.The acclaimed author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest most romantic and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprisinga story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.
language: English
title: Beautiful Ruins
publisher: Harper