From the back of the box..."The story begins in 1962. On the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies a tall, thin woman approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, an American starlet, and she is dying. And the story begins again today when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot--searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
What unfolds is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel, spanning fifty years and nearly as many lives. From the lavish set of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Walter introduces us to the tangled lives of unforgettable characters. Gloriously inventive, 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."

My thoughts...An entertaining "read" for my commute to and from work.

Sending to Aberpeter in WA.

thanks dabercro

Beautiful Ruins intricately weaves the story of multiple characters into one novel, with its main focus on Pasquale, an Italian innkeeper, and Dee, a young Hollywood actress. I loved how the story was slowly peeled apart, like the layers of an onion. With each character, no matter how minor, being important to the main plot of the story.

adding to BigJohnLefty's Other Audio Bookbox

Picked out from (the sadly departed and dearly missed) BigJohnLefty's bookbox. Thanks for sharing.