AudioFile Favorites: BEAUTIFUL RUINS by Jess Walter, read by Edoardo Ballerini
Listeners start in a coastal Italian town in the 1960s with a young innkeeper and move through present-day Hollywood with dozens of unforgettable characters. Lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers are warmly and vividly portrayed by Edoardo Ballerini.
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Show Notes
The charm of the Italian coast, movie star glamour, hope, and heartbreak are wrapped in a magical narration by Edoardo Ballerini. Editor Robin Whitten and host Jo Reed talk about why this audiobook performance makes the novel one of AudioFile’s Favorites. Listeners start with an Italian innkeeper in the 1960s and and move all the way through present-day Hollywood with dozens of unforgettable characters: husbands and wives, lovers and dreamers, superstars and losers, all warmly and vividly portrayed by Ballerini. An Earphones and Audie Award winner. Published by HarperAudio.
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