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Beautiful Ruins shows Jess Walter's considerable gifts for language, humor and story telling in a compelling novel that will have you booking a ticket to northern Italy and searching for Richard Burton films. Walter has a keen eye for our romance with nostalgia, Hollywood, and other vaunted venues and superb delivery. If it's not on your night stand by tonight, you're missing out on one of the best reads of 2012.
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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Ken Olsen, January 3, 2013
Beautiful Ruins shows Jess Walter's considerable gifts for language, humor and story telling in a compelling novel that will have you booking a ticket to northern Italy and searching for Richard Burton films. Walter has a keen eye for our romance with nostalgia, Hollywood, and other vaunted venues and superb delivery. If it's not on your night stand by tonight, you're missing out on one of the best reads of 2012.