FREE delivery to all EXCLUSIVE BOOKS stores nationwide. FREE delivery to your door on all orders over R450. Excludes all international deliveries.

Beautiful Ruins

Jess Walter

    Product form
      FORMAT: Paperback / softback

      R 287.00 Price and availability exclusive to website

      YOU COULD EARN 287 FUTURE RETAIL DISCOUNTS.
      ESTIMATED DELIVERY: Approx. 15 - 20 Business Days
      BUY NOW PAY LATER
      From R 47.83 per month!
      3x monthly payments of R 95.66 with
      4x fortnightly payments of R 71.75 with

      Format:

      'A monument to crazy love. Magic' New York Times 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions that Beautiful Ruins answers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner.'Exhilarating. Very, very funny' The Times
      CONTRIBUTORS: Jess Walter EAN: 9780241986509 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 196 g HEIGHT: 181 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-06-06 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Women WIDTH: 111 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Italy, Hollywood, c 1960 to c 1969, c 2010 to c 2019, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.

      Format:

      'A monument to crazy love. Magic' New York Times 'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .'In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions that Beautiful Ruins answers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner.'Exhilarating. Very, very funny' The Times
      CONTRIBUTORS: Jess Walter EAN: 9780241986509 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 196 g HEIGHT: 181 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-06-06 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary, FICTION / Women WIDTH: 111 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Italy, Hollywood, c 1960 to c 1969, c 2010 to c 2019, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Romance, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss

      Customer Reviews

      Be the first to write a review
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      0%
      (0)
      Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Cold Millions. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller, and We Live in Water was one of Barack Obama's books of 2019. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.

      Recently viewed products

      Login

      Forgot your password?

      Don't have an account yet?
      Create account