Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW and RULES OF CIVILITY. His novels have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than 30 languages. Towles lives in Manha
Beingacivilizedpersonisnotjustapersonalresponsibility,butalsoasocietalobligationtocontributetothecommongoodofourcities.Asurbanareasbecomeincreasinglycrowdedanddiverse,itismoreimportantthaneverforindividualstoupholdthevaluesofcivilityandrespectinordertocreateaharmoniousandthrivingcommunity. Oneofthekeyaspectsofbeingacivilized...
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“The same gorgeous, layered richness that marked Towles’ debut,Rules of Civility, shapes [A Gentleman in Moscow].”—Entertainment Weekly “If you’re looking for a summer novel, this is it. Beautifully written, a story of a Russian aristocrat trapped in Moscow during the tumult of the ...
2018-10-24: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (***). 335 pages. Published in 2011. 2018-10-21: You Have the Right to Remain Innocent by James Duane (***). 152 pages. Published in 2016. 2018-10-21: Deadly Summer by Denise Grover Swank (***). 362 pages. Published in 2018. 201...
Rules of Civilityby Amor Towles:My book group’s pick for August. My review ishere. Killers of the Flower Moonby David Grann: Fascinating and disturbing non-fiction. My review ishere. Young Jane Youngby Gabrielle Zevin: The highlight of my week! My review ishere. ...
[ad_1] The main character of Amor Towles’s debut, Rules of Civility, slips into a movie theater in the middle of a Marlene Dietrich film and watches the second half, then stays to watch the first half in the next showing. In the movies, she says, “things looked dire at the midpo...
Told from multiple points of view, the novel is reason to rejoice for Towles’s millions of fans, who made his first two novels, Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow, runaway international bestsellers. (Bill) Oh William! By Elizabeth Strout: William has remained close enough with ...
Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta (fiction); The Ways We Hide by Kristina McMorris (historical fiction); Rules of Civility by Amor Towles (historical fiction); The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord (nonfiction/science); The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Koreli...
March—Rules of Civility: A Novelby Amor Towles: On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequen...