{"product_id":"beautiful-ruins-9781611735369","title":"Beautiful Ruins","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeautiful Ruins\u003c\/strong\u003e by Walter, Jess. library edition. ISBN: 9781611735369.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1962, on a rocky patch of sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the sea and spies a woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. He learns that she is an American starlet who is said to be dying.\n\nAnd the story begins again in the present when half a world away, an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studios back lot searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.\n\nWhat unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives including the starstruck Italian innkeeper and his long-lost love; the producer who once brought them together and his idealistic young assistant; the army veteran turned fledgling novelist and the rakish Richard Burton himself, whose appetites set the whole story in motion.\nGloriously inventive and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Center Point Pub","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44947721257013,"sku":"ByrdShop_161173536X","price":115.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781611735369_5eae8195-bd3f-480c-b6dd-b3e323db8185.jpg?v=1778674892","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/beautiful-ruins-9781611735369","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}