Mon, Jul 24
|Brielle
Mid Day Book Club JULY
Join the discussion and meet new people. The books are in and you can sign a copy out at the Brielle Public Library. Copies of book available at Library. New Members are welcome.
Time & Location
Jul 24, 2023, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Brielle, 610 South St, Brielle, NJ 08730, USA
Guests
About the Event
“Why mince words? Beautiful Ruins is an absolute masterpiece.” — Richard Russo
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.
The story begins in 1962. On a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline, a young innkeeper, deep in daydreams, looks out over the waters of the Ligurian Sea and spies an apparition: a tall, thin woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. And the story begins again today, half a wo...
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