Jess Walter is the author of Beautiful Ruins, a historical fiction novel that spans 50 years. The story starts out in a small coastal town in Italy in 1962. A young actress, filming in Rome with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Cleopatra, is sent to this small town to rest. Fifty years later the hotel keeper in that small town comes to find her living in Idaho. Much of the story is set in Hollywood in the motion picture industry. The characters are well developed and the descriptions of the scenery were wonderful. My favorite character was Pasquale, the hotel keeper in Italy.
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