Beautiful Ruins

(Run Time: approx. 13 hours) 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. Jess Walter (Author) has written eleven books, most recently the acclaimed, best-selling novel So Far Gone. His other novels include the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins and the NEA Big Read, The Cold Millions; The Zero, finalist for the National Book Award; and Citizen Vince, winner of the Edgar Award. His short fiction, collected in The Angel of Rome and We Live in Water, has won O. Henry and Pushcart prizes and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. His work has been published in 34 languages and he lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. Edoardo Ballerini (Narrator) - Called "a master in his field" (The New York Times) and "in a class by himself" (Oprah Daily), Edoardo is a 2 time winner, and 5 time nominee, of the Audio Publishers Associations "Best Male Narrator" Award, a two time winner of Society of Voice Arts Awards, an AudioFile Magazine "Golden Voice" and the American Library Association's 2023 "Voice of Choice." He is also a familiar face on screens, with credits ranging from the recent A Murder at the End of the World to The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire. edoardoballerini.com