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Beautiful Ruins

The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter`s Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. The 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. And 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. Gloriously 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. ”Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart”. (New York Times). ”A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor”. (Booklist). ”Hilarious and compelling”. (Esquire).”Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you`re likely to read this year”. (Nick Hornby, The Believer). Jess 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.
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The No. 1 New York Times Bestseller Jess Walter`s Beautiful Ruins is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy & a modern Hollywood studio. The 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 & views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, & she is dying. & 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. Gloriously inventive, funny, tender & constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous & yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful & yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach. ” Magic...A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart”. (New York Times). ”A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor”. (Booklist). ” Hilarious & compelling”. (Esquire).” Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you`re likely to read this year”. (Nick Hornby, The Believer). Jess Walter is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Zero & the Edgar Award-winning Citizen Vince. His previous book The Financial Lives of the Poets was published in the UK by Penguin.

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White - A colour combining all colours
New York - A United States State. Commonly known as the Big Apple
UK - United Kingdom - An island nation in Europe
Hotel - An establishment which provides lodging for a fee
Italian - A word used ot descibe something from Italy
sun - A star at the centre of the solar system.
World - A physical grouping, commonly used to describe earth and everything associated with ti
Year - The time it takes the planet earth to orbit the sun. This takes around 365.25 days.
Set - a group of items usually related to one another. Some objects cannot function without the complete set of items.
Heart - An organ that pumps blood around the body. Usually related to love.
Love - Someone who shows deep affection for someone else.
Italy - a country in Europe.
Year - 365 days (366 days in a leap year), the time taken for planet earth to make one full revolution around the sun.
Vision - To be able to imagine, also can mean what you can see.

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Stanfords
Stanfords was established in 1853 and opened their iconic Covent Garden flagship store in 1901. They have become the top retailer of maps, travel books and accessories in the UK and arguably offer the largest selection of maps and travel books worldwide. Famous names such as Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Ranulph Fiennes and Michael Palin have purchased from Stanfords. They now have a shop in Bristol and both stores together with other venues operate a calendar of events including talks, book signings and exhibitions. As a specialist map retailer, the map selection is comprehensive and includes road maps, street maps and walking maps from worldwide destinations, as well as a selection of world atlases and wall maps. Books include travel guides and travel literature. Stanfords also stock globes, from miniatures made of blue marble to magnificent floor-standing globes. The website features a selection of interesting articles on travel topics.
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