Amor Towles
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A Gentleman in Moscow -- Amor Towles - Hardcover
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Author: Amor Towles
Publisher: Viking
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780670026197
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2016 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2016
Library Journal 01/01/0001 pg. 89
Shelf Awareness 09/06/2016
Shelf Awareness 12/09/2016
Library Journal 01/01/0001
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.
Author: Amor Towles
Publisher: Viking
Published: 09/06/2016
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780670026197
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2016 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2016
Booklist 07/01/2016 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 07/11/2016
Library Journal 01/01/0001 pg. 89
Shelf Awareness 09/06/2016
Shelf Awareness 12/09/2016
Library Journal 01/01/0001
About the Author
Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow. The two novels have collectively sold more than four million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
Product Attributes: Amor Towles, Fiction, Fiction - Historical, Hardcover, Historical, Historical fiction, Literary, Political, Viking