02279cam a2200433 i 4500 423349619 TxAuBib 20200414120000.0 120615t20132012||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780061928178 0061928178 (OCoLC)795757290 TxAuBib rda Walter, Jess, 1965- Beautiful ruins : a novel / Jess Walter. First Harper Perennial edition. New York : Harper Perennial, 2013. ℗2012. 337, 16 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more. The story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 ... and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later, featuring an Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet, the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. "Beautiful Ruins is a glorious read for book lovers ... Jess Walter has quietly and expertly built a career over six novels that puts him at the forefront of great American writers. Beautiful Ruins is the emerald among the pearls."--Selections from a review by best-selling novelist Adriana Trigiani. 20200414. A former National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, as of September 2015, Jess Walter is the author of six novels, one book of short stories and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Harper's, Esquire, McSweeney's, Details and many others. Hotelkeepers Italy Fiction. Hotelkeepers Fiction. Motion picture actors and actresses Fiction. Americans Italy Fiction. Americans. Hotelkeepers. Motion picture actors and actresses. Actors Fiction. Man-woman relationship Fiction. Italy. Fiction.