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Beautiful Ruins
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Beautiful Ruins
By Jess Walter
352 pages; Harper
Available at: Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | iBookstore | IndieBound
"The funniest and best novel I've read all  year is Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins. Not many satirists can stop on a dime and testify with equal power and intelligence to what is not, for them, a laughing matter." —Richard Russo

Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is an irresistible romp through Italy in the Technicolor era, when a starlet hooked up with the dashingly drunken Richard Burton and charmed the townspeople in a tiny seaside village. The present-day scenes are pretty snazzy, too.


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