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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
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 s ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jess Walter's "Beautiful Ruins" is a gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio. 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 S ...Show more
Beautiful Ruins (US ED) by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
From the moment it opens--on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat--Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set o ...Show more
The Angel of Rome by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins and The Cold Millions comes a riveting, brilliantly funny and moving collection about the moments in life when everything changesIn this dazzling collection of stories, a son must repeatedly come out to his senile father while looking for ...Show more
The Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 by Jess Walter
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A collection of the year's best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by #1 New York Times bestselling author and guest editor Jess Walter and series editor Steph Cha. New York Times bestselling author and "superb storyteller" (Boston Globe), Jess Walter flexes his genre chops and selects twenty ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
'A beautiful, lyric hymn to the power of social unrest in American history...funny and harrowing, sweet and violent, innocent and experienced; it walks a dozen tightropes' Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See_____________________________________________1909. Spokane, Washington.The Dolan ...Show more
The Cold Millions by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
From the author of the wonderful Beautiful Ruins comes an erudite and beguiling new novel. The Dolan brothers live by their wits, jumping freight trains and lining up for day work at crooked job agencies. While sixteen-year-old Rye yearns for a steady job and a home, his dashing older brother Gig dream ...Show more
The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
From the author of the bestselling Beautiful Ruins comes The Financial Lives of Poets - a brilliantly funny novel about a man who, in an attempt to save himself, may destroy everything he loves. Meet Matt Prior. He's about to lose his job, his house, his wife, and maybe his sanity too. Financial journal ...Show more
We Live in Water by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
From Jess Walter, the bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins, comes We Live in Water - a darkly funny, utterly compelling collection of stories about the American family. We Live in Water brings to vivid life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a w ...Show more
We Live in Water: Stories by Jess Walter
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Category: Fiction
A HarperPerennial Paperback Original The first collection of short fiction from Jess Walter--a suite of diverse and searching stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit, keen eye, and generosity of spirit that has made him a bookseller and reader favorite ...Show more
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