{"product_id":"9780670922659","title":"Beautiful Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Walter, Jess \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 30\/05\/2013,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 368 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780670922659,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe No. 1 New York Times BestsellerJess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGloriously 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697306763308,"sku":"9780670922659","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780670922659_e8245842-0ec0-4c88-843d-0b48f5f65238.jpg?v=1759666180","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780670922659","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}