About Beautiful Ruins
• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2013)
From the moment it opens—on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat—Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, 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.
About Jess Walter
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His collection of short fiction, We Live in Water, has just been published by Harper Perennial. He lives in Spokane, Washington.
Find out more about Jess at his website and follow him on Twitter.
Jess’ Tour Stops
Tuesday, April 2nd: The Blog of Lit Wits
Wednesday, April 3rd: Olduvai Reads
Thursday, April 4th: Peppermint PhD
Friday, April 5th: Tiffany’s Bookshelf
Monday, April 8th: As I turn the pages
Tuesday, April 9th: Book Dilettante
Wednesday, April 10th: Great Imaginations
Thursday, April 11th: BookNAround
Friday, April 12th: 5 Minutes For Books
Saturday, April 13th: Doing Dewey
Wednesday, April 17th: Speaking of Books
Thursday, April 18th: she treads softly