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Beautiful Ruins

Beautiful Ruins( )
Author: Walter, Jess
ISBN:978-0-241-98650-9
Publication Date:Sep 2019
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. A few days later international star Richard Burton, much the worse for wear, appears in the village too. Half a century later, and half a world away in Hollywood, an elderly Italian...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Performing Arts / Film, Television & Radio
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):11.2 x 18 x 2.1 cm
Book Weight:0.196 Kilograms
Author Biography
Walter, Jess (Author)
Jess Walter was born on July 20, 1965. He graduated from Eastern Washington University. Before becoming an author, he worked as a journalist. His work has appeared in Newsweek, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. He has written one nonfiction book and several novels. His works include Every Knee Shall Bow, Over Tumbled Graves, The Zero, and Beautiful Ruins. His novel, Citizen Vince, won the 2005 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best novel. He was the co-author of Christopher Darden's 1996 bestseller In Contempt.

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