Beautiful Ruins
The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an Americ...
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OAI-LARISA:569612023-08-11T11:26:03ZBeautiful RuinsWalter, JessPenguin2013engThe story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years beforeΑμερικάνικη λογοτεχνίαΑμερικάνικο μυθιστόρημαΞενόγλωσσα βιβλία (Λογοτεχνία)URN:ISBN:978067092265956961 |
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Δημόσια Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη Λάρισας "Κωνσταντίνος Κούμας" |
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Αμερικάνικη λογοτεχνία Αμερικάνικο μυθιστόρημα Ξενόγλωσσα βιβλία (Λογοτεχνία) Walter, Jess Beautiful Ruins |
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The story begins in 1962. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying.
And the story begins again today, half a world away in Hollywood, when an elderly Italian man shows up on a movie studio's back lot searching for the woman he last saw at his hotel fifty years before |
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