The release date for the English version of 'Beautiful Ruins' by
Jess Walter is Jun 2012. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
"The best novel of the year." ― Fresh Air host Maureen Corrigan of NPR
This "absolute masterpiece" (Richard Russo) is a #1 New York Times bestseller that tells the tale of an almost-love affair that starts in 1962 on the Italian coast and reappears in Hollywood fifty years later. This is a stunning, but very human, roller coaster of a story that takes the reader from the opulent set of Cleopatra to the seedy revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the back lots of modern Hollywood.
The highly regarded writer of the widely read The Financial Lives of the Poets is back with his most romantic, humorous, and absolutely delightful book to date. Beautiful Ruins, praised by reviewers and adored by fans of literary and historical fiction, is a tale of flawed but intriguing individuals navigating the rough seas of life while clinging to their unlikely goals. It is magnificently original and ever-surprising.