A Gentleman in Moscow: A Recent

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E-newsletter Year: 2016 Structure: Hardcover, Hardcover
Language: English ISBN:

9780670026197

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9780670026197

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Synopsis
A Gentleman in Moscow immerses the reader in a single other elegantly drawn era with the legend of Depend Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the rely is sentenced to home arrest within the Metropol, a colossal resort all around the avenue from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never labored a day in his life, and need to now stay in an attic room while about a of perchance the most tumultuous a protracted time in Russian historical previous are unfolding outdoors the lodges’ doorways. All loyal now, his diminished circumstances present him a doorway loyal into an incredible greater world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering solid of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after one other, this singular contemporary casts a spell because it relates the counts’ endeavor to assign a deeper figuring out of what it draw to be a man of cause.

Product Identifiers
ISBN-10 0670026190
ISBN-13 9780670026197
eBay Product ID (ePID) 221745973

Key Info
Writer Amor Towles
Number Of Pages 480 pages
Structure Hardcover / Hardcover
E-newsletter Date 2016-09-06
Language English
Publisher Viking
E-newsletter Year 2016

Additional Info
Copyright Date 2016
Illustrated Sure

Dimensions
Weight 25.3 Oz.19459034]
Top 1.5 In.
Width 6.2 In.
Length 9.3 In.

Aim Target market
Group Trade

Classification Methodology
LCCN 2016-030082
LC Classification Number PS3620.O945G46 2016
Dewey Decimal 813/.6
Dewey Edition 23

Opinions
“Kindly” – Chicago Tribune “The radical buzzes with the energy of various adventures, luxuriate in affairs, twists of destiny and silly antics.” – The Wall Avenue Journal “A loyal, stylish contemporary.” – NPR.org “Scrumptious, dapper.” – Seattle Conditions “The suitable plunge e-book to twist up with while the area goes by outdoors your window.” – Refinery29.com “Irresistible . . . In his second dapper interval fraction funding banker turned novelist Amor Towles continues to explore the query of how a particular person can lead an authentic life in a time when mere survival is a feat in itself . . . Towles”s account, as lavishly filigreed as a Fabergé egg, gleams with nostalgia for the golden age of Tolstoy and Turgenev . . . reminding the reader that despite the incontrovertible truth that Putin might maybe perchance very properly be having a second, it”s Pushkin who”s eternal.” — O, The Oprah Journal “The e-book moves briskly from one crisp scene to the next, and indirectly casts a spell as encompassing as Rules of Civility , a e-book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe.” –Town & Country “In all ways a huge contemporary, a nonstop pleasure brimming with allure, non-public records, and philosophic insight . . .This is a e-book in which the cruelties of the age can”t initiate to erase the glories of valid human connection and the recollections it leaves gradual. A masterly encapsulation of standard Russian historical previous, this e-book greater than fulfills the promise of Towles” stylish debut, Rules of Civility .” — Kirkus Opinions (starred) “In his outstanding first contemporary, the bestselling Rules of Civility , Towles etched Thirties Unique York in crystalline relief . . . His most standard polished literary foray loyal into a bygone era is correct variety as impressive . . . an imaginative and unforgettable historical portrait.” – Booklist “Condo arrest has never been so charming as in Towles”s second contemporary, an enticing 30-One year saga set nearly totally internal the Metropol, Moscow”s most gorgeous resort. . .empathetic, and sharp.” – Publishers Weekly Reward for Rules of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies and world-weary WASPs in Thirties Unique York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a metropolis that is loyal now melting pot and elitist enclave – and a totally standard heroine who fearlessly claims her set in it.” — O, the Oprah Journal “With this instant interval fraction, Towles resurrects the cinematic unlit-and-white Ny of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful Americans in advanced cases, attempting to originate authentic lives.” — The Unique York Conditions Guide Review “This very upright first contemporary about striving and surviving in Despair-era Ny deserves attention…The huge strength of Rules of Civility is within the exciting, sure-handed evocation of Ny within the gradual ”30s.” — Wall Avenue Journal “Attach on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful life of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he”s writing about, besides to the gleaming, veritably reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] effective debut contemporary…Towles [plays] with about a of the huge themes of luxuriate in and class, appropriate fortune and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton”s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…stuffed with instant dialogue, exciting observations and an array of terrifically drawn characters…Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to be pleased…a e-book that enchants on first reading and appropriate improves on the second.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer “Kindly” – Chicago Tribune “This finely mute contemporary contemporary by Amor Towles stretches out with passe-World class.” -The Washington Post “The radical buzzes with the energy of various adventures, luxuriate in affairs, twists of destiny and silly antics.” – The Wall Avenue Journal “A loyal, stylish contemporary.” – NPR.org “Scrumptious, dapper.” – Seattle Conditions “The suitable plunge e-book to twist up with while the area goes by outdoors your window.” – Refinery29.com “Irresistible . . . In his second dapper interval fraction funding banker turned novelist Amor Towles continues to explore the query of how a particular person can lead an authentic life in a time when mere survival is a feat in itself . . . Towles”s account, as lavishly filigreed as a Fabergé egg, gleams with nostalgia for the golden age of Tolstoy and Turgenev . . . reminding the reader that despite the incontrovertible truth that Putin might maybe perchance very properly be having a second, it”s Pushkin who”s eternal.” — O, The Oprah Journal “The e-book moves briskly from one crisp scene to the next, and indirectly casts a spell as encompassing as Rules of Civility , a e-book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe.” –Town & Country “In all ways a huge contemporary, a nonstop pleasure brimming with allure, non-public records, and philosophic insight . . .This is a e-book in which the cruelties of the age can”t initiate to erase the glories of valid human connection and the recollections it leaves gradual. A masterly encapsulation of standard Russian historical previous, this e-book greater than fulfills the promise of Towles” stylish debut, Rules of Civility .” — Kirkus Opinions (starred) “In his outstanding first contemporary, the bestselling Rules of Civility , Towles etched Thirties Unique York in crystalline relief . . . His most standard polished literary foray loyal into a bygone era is correct variety as impressive . . . an imaginative and unforgettable historical portrait.” – Booklist “Condo arrest has never been so charming as in Towles”s second contemporary, an enticing 30-One year saga set nearly totally internal the Metropol, Moscow”s most gorgeous resort. . .empathetic, and sharp.” – Publishers Weekly Reward for Rules of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies and world-weary WASPs in Thirties Unique York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a metropolis that is loyal now melting pot and elitist enclave – and a totally standard heroine who fearlessly claims her set in it.” — O, the Oprah Journal “With this instant interval fraction, Towles resurrects the cinematic unlit-and-white Ny of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful Americans in advanced cases, attempting to originate authentic lives.” — The Unique York Conditions Guide Review “This very upright first contemporary about striving and surviving in Despair-era Ny deserves attention…The huge strength of Rules of Civility is within the exciting, sure-handed evocation of Ny within the gradual ”30s.” — Wall Avenue Journal “Attach on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful life of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he”s writing about, besides to the gleaming, veritably reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] effective debut contemporary…Towles [plays] with about a of the huge themes of luxuriate in and class, appropriate fortune and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton”s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…stuffed with instant dialogue, exciting observations and an array of terrifically drawn characters…Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to be pleased…a e-book that enchants on first reading and appropriate improves on the second.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer Reward for Rules of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies and world-weary WASPs in Thirties Unique York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a metropolis that is loyal now melting pot and elitist enclave – and a totally standard heroine who fearlessly claims her set in it.” — O, the Oprah Journal “With this instant interval fraction, Towles resurrects the cinematic unlit-and-white Ny of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful Americans in advanced cases, attempting to originate authentic lives.” — The Unique York Conditions Guide Review “This very upright first contemporary about striving and surviving in Despair-era Ny deserves attention…The huge strength of Rules of Civility is within the exciting, sure-handed evocation of Ny within the gradual ’30s.” — Wall Avenue Journal “Attach on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful life of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he is writing about, besides to the gleaming, veritably reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] effective debut contemporary…Towles [plays] with about a of the huge themes of luxuriate in and class, appropriate fortune and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton’s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…stuffed with instant dialogue, exciting observations and an array of terrifically drawn characters…Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to be pleased…a e-book that enchants on first reading and appropriate improves on the second.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

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