The #1New York TimesbestsellerJess Walters absolute masterpiece (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author): the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 and resurfaces fifty years later in contemporary Hollywood.

The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestsellerThe Financial Lives of the Poetsreturns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction,Beautiful Ruinsis the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962…and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later.