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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction
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 S ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 s ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction
The story begins in 1962. 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 spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an actress, he soon l ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins (US ED) by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
From the moment it opens--on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat--Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set o ...Show more
Ruby Ridge by Jess Walter
Category: True Crime
An account of murder, government mayhem, cover-ups and the chilling trial surrounding an American tragedy that cuts to the heart of the most explosive issues in American today.
The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a riveting, brilliantly funny and moving collection about the moments in life when everything changesIn this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for ...Show more
The Angel of Rome - And Other Stories by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a stunning collection about those moments when everything changes--for the better, for the worse, for the outrageous--as a diverse cast of characters bounces from Italy to Idaho, questioning their roles in lif ...Show more
The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 by Jess Walter
Category: Fiction
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author and "superb storyteller" (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty ...Show more