Beautiful Ruins

"The best novel of the year." — Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air

A #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 surprising—a story of flawed yet fascinating people navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.

„Cel mai bun roman al anului”. - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, bestseller-ul # 1 al New York Times, aceasta „capodopera absoluta” (Richard Russo) este povestea unei aventuri aproape de dragoste care incepe pe coasta italiana in 1962 si reapare la cincizeci de ani mai tarziu la Hollywood. De la decorul fastuos al Cleopatrei pana la petrecerea subreda a Festivalului Fringe din Edinburgh, pana la loturile din spate ale Hollywood-ului contemporan, acesta este un roller coaster orbitor, dar profund uman, al unui roman. revine cu cel mai amuzant, cel mai romantic si cel mai placut roman de pana acum.