A Gentleman in Moscow: A Unusual

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Unusual

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Format: Hardcover
Language: English E-newsletter Year: 2016
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9780670026197

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9780670026197

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A Gentleman in Moscow immerses the reader in a single other elegantly drawn period with the parable of Depend Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he’s deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the depend is sentenced to accommodate arrest within the Metropol, a mountainous hotel across the dual carriageway from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has by no strategy worked a day in his existence, and must now reside in an attic room while some of basically the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotels’ doorways. Hasty, his reduced conditions present him a doorway into a phenomenal better world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering solid of characters, and one fantastically rendered scene after one other, this singular new casts a spell because it relates the counts’ endeavor to attain a deeper working out of what it technique to be a man of motive.

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

Product Key Aspects
Format Hardcover
E-newsletter Year 2016
Language English

Dimensions
Weight 25.3 Oz
Width 6.2in.
Height 1.5in.
Length 9.3in.

Additional Product Aspects
Dewey Edition 23
Illustrated Sure
Dewey Decimal 813/.6
Copyright Date 2016
Author Amor Towles
Preference of Pages 480 Pages
Lc Classification Number Ps3620.O945g46 2016
E-newsletter Date 2016-09-06
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Towles”s fable, as lavishly filigreed as a Fabergé egg, gleams with nostalgia for the golden age of Tolstoy and Turgenev . . . reminding the reader that although Putin can also merely be having a moment, it”s Pushkin who”s eternal.” — O, The Oprah Magazine “The book strikes briskly from one crisp scene to the following, and finally casts a spell as encompassing as Tips of Civility , a book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe.” –Metropolis & Country “In all ways a broad new, a nonstop pleasure brimming with allure, non-public wisdom, and philosophic insight . . .Here’s a book all over which the cruelties of the age can”t launch to erase the glories of actual human connection and the reminiscences it leaves slack. A masterly encapsulation of up to the moment Russian history, this book better than fulfills the promise of Towles” classy debut, Tips of Civility .” — Kirkus Opinions (starred) “In his outstanding first new, the bestselling Tips of Civility , Towles etched 1930s Unusual York in crystalline relief . . . His most modern polished literary foray into a bygone period is correct as spectacular . . . an imaginative and unforgettable historical portrait.” – Booklist “Dwelling arrest has by no strategy been so charming as in Towles”s 2d new, an taking part 30-twelve months saga field nearly utterly within the Metropol, Moscow”s most sparkling hotel. . .empathetic, and nice looking.” – Publishers Weekly Reward for Tips of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies folk and world-weary WASPs in 1930s Unusual York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the period, Towles portrays advanced relationships in a metropolis that is without delay melting pot and elitist enclave – and a thoroughly up to the moment heroine who fearlessly claims her position in it.” — O, the Oprah Magazine “With this quick length fragment, Towles resurrects the cinematic gloomy-and-white Prolonged island of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful American citizens in hard times, searching to originate genuine lives.” — The Unusual York Times Book Evaluate “This very factual first new about striving and surviving in Depression-period Prolonged island deserves attention…The broad strength of Tips of Civility is within the animated, sure-handed evocation of Prolonged island within the unhurried ”30s.” — Wall Boulevard Journal “Placed on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful existence of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he”s writing about, as well to the gleaming, usually reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] very marvelous debut new…Towles [plays] with among the broad themes of admire and class, luck and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton”s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…crammed with quick dialogue, animated 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 commerce.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to love…a book that enchants on first finding out and most nice looking improves on the 2d.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Superior” – Chicago Tribune “The radical buzzes with the energy of a broad alternative of adventures, admire affairs, twists of fate and silly antics.” – The Wall Boulevard Journal “A gracious, classy new.” – NPR.org “Stunning, dapper.” – Seattle Times “The correct descend book to curve up with while the sector goes by outside your window.” – Refinery29.com “Irresistible . . . In his 2d dapper length fragment funding banker turned novelist Amor Towles continues to explore the inquire of of how a person can lead an genuine existence in a time when mere survival is a feat in itself . . . Towles”s fable, as lavishly filigreed as a Fabergé egg, gleams with nostalgia for the golden age of Tolstoy and Turgenev . . . reminding the reader that although Putin can also merely be having a moment, it”s Pushkin who”s eternal.” — O, The Oprah Magazine “The book strikes briskly from one crisp scene to the following, and finally casts a spell as encompassing as Tips of Civility , a book that inhales you into its seductively Gatsby-esque universe.” –Metropolis & Country “In all ways a broad new, a nonstop pleasure brimming with allure, non-public wisdom, and philosophic insight . . .Here’s a book all over which the cruelties of the age can”t launch to erase the glories of actual human connection and the reminiscences it leaves slack. A masterly encapsulation of up to the moment Russian history, this book better than fulfills the promise of Towles” classy debut, Tips of Civility .” — Kirkus Opinions (starred) “In his outstanding first new, the bestselling Tips of Civility , Towles etched 1930s Unusual York in crystalline relief . . . His most modern polished literary foray into a bygone period is correct as spectacular . . . an imaginative and unforgettable historical portrait.” – Booklist “Dwelling arrest has by no strategy been so charming as in Towles”s 2d new, an taking part 30-twelve months saga field nearly utterly within the Metropol, Moscow”s most sparkling hotel. . .empathetic, and nice looking.” – Publishers Weekly Reward for Tips of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies folk and world-weary WASPs in 1930s Unusual York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the period, Towles portrays advanced relationships in a metropolis that is without delay melting pot and elitist enclave – and a thoroughly up to the moment heroine who fearlessly claims her position in it.” — O, the Oprah Magazine “With this quick length fragment, Towles resurrects the cinematic gloomy-and-white Prolonged island of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful American citizens in hard times, searching to originate genuine lives.” — The Unusual York Times Book Evaluate “This very factual first new about striving and surviving in Depression-period Prolonged island deserves attention…The broad strength of Tips of Civility is within the animated, sure-handed evocation of Prolonged island within the unhurried ”30s.” — Wall Boulevard Journal “Placed on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful existence of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he”s writing about, as well to the gleaming, usually reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] very marvelous debut new…Towles [plays] with among the broad themes of admire and class, luck and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton”s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…crammed with quick dialogue, animated 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 commerce.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to love…a book that enchants on first finding out and most nice looking improves on the 2d.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer, Reward for Tips of Civility “An irresistible and astonishingly assured debut about working class-ladies folk and world-weary WASPs in 1930s Unusual York…within the crisp, noirish prose of the period, Towles portrays advanced relationships in a metropolis that is without delay melting pot and elitist enclave – and a thoroughly up to the moment heroine who fearlessly claims her position in it.” — O, the Oprah Magazine “With this quick length fragment, Towles resurrects the cinematic gloomy-and-white Prolonged island of the golden age…[his] characters are youthful American citizens in hard times, searching to originate genuine lives.” — The Unusual York Times Book Evaluate “This very factual first new about striving and surviving in Depression-period Prolonged island deserves attention…The broad strength of Tips of Civility is within the animated, sure-handed evocation of Prolonged island within the unhurried ’30s.” — Wall Boulevard Journal “Placed on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself within the eventful existence of Katey Kontent…[Towles] clearly is conscious of the privileged world he’s writing about, as well to the gleaming, usually reckless characters who inhabit it.” — Of us “[A] very marvelous debut new…Towles [plays] with among the broad themes of admire and class, luck and fated encounters that fascinating Wharton’s novels.” — The Chicago Tribune “Glittering…crammed with quick dialogue, animated 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 commerce.” –NPR.org “Glamorous Gotham in a single to love…a book that enchants on first finding out and most nice looking improves on the 2d.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer
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