Издания и произведения

'The actress arrived in his village the only way one could come directly . . .' In spring 1962 American actress Dee Moray's boat motors into an Italian bay and the life of hotelier Pasquale Tursi. Dee - fleeing a film set, claiming to be dying and desperately awaiting her lover - throws herself on Pasquale's generous mercy. Fifty years later Pasquale lands in Hollywood, sporting a fedora and seeking a long-forgotten actress. Why he's come, what happened to Dee in Italy and, later, LA, are questions that Beautiful Ruins answers in the most surprising and wonderfully entertaining manner.

Gloriously inventive, funny, tender and constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a novel full of fabulous and yet very flawed people, all of them striving towards another sort of life, a future that is both delightful and yet, tantalizingly, seems just out of reach.

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.

Италия тысяча девятьсот шестьдесят второго, небольшой городок, расположенный на морском побережье Лигурии. В городской отель приехала новая клиентка-иностранка. Она молода и удивительно красива, трудно описать чувства Паскуале, юноши из семейства которому принадлежит гостиница. О том, что гостья – актриса из Америки и страдает от неизлечимой болезни, он узнает не сразу… Дальнейшие события уже наших дней. Голливуд, известная киностудия и немолодой мужчина-итальянец желающий получить какую-нибудь информацию о женщине, той самой актрисе, с которой познакомился полвека назад, в семейном отеле в одном из крошечных итальянских…

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.