Beautiful Ruins
«Just about the perfect summer read. It is intelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun. Reading hours fly by and reaching the final page feels like a genuine wrench»
Sunday Times
The No. 1 New York Times BestsellerJess 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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 368
- ISBN
- 9780670922659
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Just about the perfect summer read. It is intelligent and thought-provoking, but also a lot of fun. Reading hours fly by and reaching the final page feels like a genuine wrench»
Sunday Times
«Ambitious, large-hearted, exhilarating novel that leaves you wanting more . . . Very, very funny»
The Times
«Beautiful Ruins is a novel unlike any other you're likely to read this year»
Nick Hornby
«Romantic, very funny...Turbo-charged satire meets a Garcia Marquezesque love story. What's not to like?»
Daily Mail
«Walter creates an epic here - one that took him 15 years to write. The end result, however, is well worth the wait»
Observer
«A sparkling summer read»
Telegraph
«Thoroughly enjoyable, a tender, funny, ridiculous tale which has love at its core and a keen satirical edge to cut through the lovely, lush romanticism»
Sunday Express
«You're going to love this book»
New York Times Book Review
«Walter's account of the filming of the Burton/Taylor classic Cleopatra is a playful imagining of emotional history and hidden lives just out of view. Be warned, this is a novel that may make any festive guests somewhat anti-social as I read it in two days flat»
Olivia Cole, GQ 'Books of the Year'
«A brilliant, madcap meditation on fate»
Kirkus Reviews
«A novel shot in sparkly Technicolor»
Booklist
«The beach read of the summer»
Vogue
«Hilarious and compelling»
Esquire
«Magic. Walter is a believer in capricious destiny with a fine, freewheeling sense of humour . . . A monument to crazy love with a deeply romantic heart»
New York Times
«Poignant, comical and marvellous»
San Francisco Chronicle
«My absolute favourite read this year»
Nick Curtis, Evening Standard 'Books of the Year'
«A bravura feat»
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'Books of the Year'
«The beach read of 2013»
Grazia 'Books of the Year'
«Think Il Postino with a walk-on part for a comically drunk Richard Burton»
Peter Brookes, The Times 'Books of the Year'