Beautiful Ruins
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Author:
Walter, Jess
Narrator:
Ballerini, Edoardo
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HarperAudio 2012
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The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.
"Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece." —Richard Russo
"A ridiculously talented writer." —New York Times
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Street Date:
06/12/2012
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780062201621
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Jess Walter. (2012). Beautiful Ruins. Unabridged HarperAudio.

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Jess Walter. 2012. Beautiful Ruins. HarperAudio.

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Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins. HarperAudio, 2012.

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Jess Walter. Beautiful Ruins. Unabridged HarperAudio, 2012.

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"Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece." —Richard Russo
"A ridiculously talented writer." —New York Times
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