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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

February 25, 2013

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Satirical novels about the movie business are funny but rarely charming. Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter manages to be both.

In 1962, a beautiful actress arrives on the doorstep of Pasquale Tursi’s failing pensione on the Italian coast. Dee Moray is a member of the cast of Cleopatra, which is filming in Rome. Why has Dee been banished to the obscure and remote Hotel Adequate View?

Love-struck Pasquale discovers that a scheming publicist named Michael Deane and Cleopatra star Richard Burton (in a hysterical cameo) are responsible. Confrontation, copious drink, and cacophony ensue.

Fifty years later, Pasquale Tursi arrives at the Los Angeles office of Michael Deane (now a scheming producer) looking for Dee Moray, who he hasn’t seen since the sixties.

With cinematic flair, Jess Walter has written an amusing portrait of Hollywood and an unusual love story.

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