Title:
Beautiful Ruins
Author:
Jess Walter
Genre:
Fiction
Age Group:
Adult
Contents:
Bag with 10 copies of book + discussion questions and author information.
Location:
May Memorial Library
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. The story begins again today when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studios back lot, searching for the mysterious woman he last saw at his hotel decades earlier.
