{"product_id":"beautiful-ruins-9780670922659","title":"Beautiful Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe No. 1 New York Times Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eJess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor' Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Hilarious and compelling' Esquire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year' Nick Hornby, The Believer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero and the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jess Walter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44212932608060,"sku":"9780670922659","price":597.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/beautiful-ruins-9780670922659.jpg?v=1776703987","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/beautiful-ruins-9780670922659","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}