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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

This Month's Selection: Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

cover image of Beautiful Ruins
This month's selection is Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. Join the group for a face-to-face discussion on Tuesday, June 18, at 6:30 p.m. or join the discussion online starting June 19th.

From the publisher:
The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets returns with his  funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet: the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962 . . . and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. 
“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” —Richard Russo 
“A ridiculously talented writer.” —New York Times

Browse inside the book at HarperCollins.
 

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