Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter
Literary Fiction
Beautiful Ruins
by Jess Walter
—· 368 p· 2012
NYT Bestsellerreflectivefunny
Overview
About
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 of Cleopatra to the shabby revelry of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to the back lots of contemporary Hollywood, Beautiful Ruins is gloriously inventive and constantly surprising—a story of flawed ye…
Pages
368
HarperCollins Publishers
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Character Ensemble9
Prose8
Emotional depth8
Narration8
Hollywood Satire8
Plot twists7
Pacing7
Worldbuilding5
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