![]() ![]() Many times he thought he would abandon it altogether, even though he was never quite able to. ![]() section “In the Time of Galley Slaves.” And learned, to my astonishment, that it took him 15 years to write Beautiful Ruins. ![]() Forget the fact that Jess Walter ends Beautiful Ruins perfectly-all those characters and plotlines, all those balls in the air, brought so beautifully and spectacularly to a close in Chapter 21, also titled “Beautiful Ruins.”īut I had to keep going, so I read Walter’s excellent and hilarious essay in the P.S. I could barely put it down, and then I insisted that everyone else read it, too. I finally read Beautiful Ruins in trade paperback, and I was blown away. We all love bestsellers, but sometimes the data gets in the way of the piece at its center, the book. Spotlight on a Bestseller: Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins by Lelia Mander ![]()
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