With his breakout debut novel,Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, “Towles writes wi...
RULES OF CIVILITY by Amor Towles. (Have you read A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW? Loved it.) Also reading THE LOWEST TREES HAVE TOPS, by Martha Gellhorn. Finishing Fergus M. Bordewich’s KLAN WAR: ULYSSES S. GRANT AND THE BATTLE TO SAVE RECONSTRUCTION. Also reading PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee. Towl...
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 three million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Having worked as an investment professional for more than twent...
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead The Need by Helen Phillips Rules of Civility by Amor Towles The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess Severance by Ling Ma The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Inland by Tea Obrecht Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akn...
Another famous literary hotel is the Hotel Metropole in Amor Towles’A Gentleman in Moscow.Like the Hotel California of the Eagles’ song, this was a hotel where “you could check in any time you like, but you can never leave”- if you’re Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov. As the vast hi...
Rules of Civility: A Novelby Amor Towles — He is a master story teller and I never want the books to end! Out of Darkness, Shining Light: A Novelby Petina Gappah – This is a well-researched story of the Africans who brought David Livingston’s body after he died out of the “hear...
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...
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles Name of Group: The Fun Book Group Number of Members in Group: 10 Age Range: 58-73 Freida from Round Rock , Texas Big Lies in a Small Town by Diane Chamberlain Name of Group: N/A Number of Members in Group: 6 Age Range: 25-50 Cindy...
Set against the backdrop of the early 1960s Chicago jazz scene, a highly ambitious and stylish literary debut that combines the atmosphere and period detail of Amor Towles' Rules of Civility with the emotional depth and drama of The Memory Keeper's Daughter , about a talented but troubled ...
The novella acted as a continuing story for Amor Towles’s first novel Rules of Civility. The pace of the stories works well for the most part only 2 out of the 7 I thought could be shorter. The 6 short stories make up the first half of the book and the novella takes up the back...