A Gentleman in Moscow
Amor Towles, 2016
A Russian count is sentenced to house arrest in a grand Moscow hotel, where four decades of dinners, friendships and small rebellions must fit inside a few hundred rooms.
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Before turning to fiction, Towles spent two decades in investment management; his first novel, Rules of Civility, appeared in 2011, this one five years later.
A man realises his days have quietly become a set of measurements.
Granted, a bottle of Baudelaire was something of an extravagance for a solitary lunch, but after spending another morning with the indefatigable Michel de Montaigne, the Count felt that his morale could use the boost. For several days, in fact, he had been fending off a state of restlessness. On his regular descent to the lobby, he caught himself counting the steps. As he browsed the headlines in his favorite chair, he found he was lifting his hands to twirl the tips of moustaches that were no longer there. He found he was walking through the door of the Piazza at 12:01 for lunch. And at 1:35, when he climbed the 110 steps to his room, he was already calculating the minutes until he could come back downstairs for a drink. Books by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway
Amor Towles, 2021
Just out of reform school in 1954, Emmett wants to drive to California with his little brother — until two escapees arrive with a different plan.
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