Beautiful Ruins: A Novel

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A Kirkus "Best Book of the 21st Century" The acclaimed award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest most romantic and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece. Richard Russo A ridiculously talented writer. New York Times