Beautiful RuinsA gorgeous, glamorous novel set in 1960s Italy and a modern Hollywood studio a New York Times bestseller. The story begins on the Italian coast in 1962. A young innkeeper watches in disbelief as a beautiful American girl gets out of a boat and climbs towards his hotel. She turns out to be an actress, on the run from the shenanigans going on down the coast in Rome at the filming of Cleopatra. A few days later, international star Richard Burton, much