Interview with Jess Walter author of "Beautiful Ruins"
Jul 28, 2012•46 min
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Episode description
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.
“A literary miracle.”—NPR’s Fresh Air
“A high-wire feat of bravura storytelling.”—NYT Book Review
“A masterpiece … damn near perfect.”—Salon
“A literary miracle.”—NPR’s Fresh Air
“A high-wire feat of bravura storytelling.”—NYT Book Review
“A masterpiece … damn near perfect.”—Salon
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