<p>The acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller <em>The Financial Lives of the Poets </em>returns with his funniest, most romantic, and most purely enjoyable novel yet. Hailed by critics and loved by readers of literary and historical fiction, <em>Beautiful Ruins</em> is the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962...and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. </p>