Amor Towles
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel 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...
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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 consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. -- Back cover.
A chance encounter...
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"The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In...
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Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra
Pub. Date
2019
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Español
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"Aleksandr Rostov, aristócrata y erudito irredento, es un cliente asiduo del Metropol, el hotel más espléndido de Moscú. Nunca ha trabajado desde que dejó de estudiar, y aplica todo su ingenio y refinamiento a su pasión por los vinos, la gastronomía y la literatura. En 1922, los bolcheviques lo condenan a muerte; sin embargo, un poema revolucionario escrito una década antes lo salva de la pena capital, que el tribunal le conmuta por la de...
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Letras de bolsillo volume 190
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Salamandra
Pub. Date
2014.
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Español
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Vibrante homenaje a la Nueva York de los anos treinta, la gran urbe de los clubs privados, los bares de jazz y los imponentes edificios con marquesina y portero de uniforme, esta novela fue uno de los debuts mas sonados del pasado ano en Estados Unidos. / The story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey,...
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A Gentleman in Moscow recounts the story of Count Alexander Rostov. In 1922, on the heels of the Russian Revolution, the Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to permanent house arrest in Moscow's grand Hotel Metropol. In something of a literary feat, as the Count's story progresses over three decades, the walls of the Metropol seem to expand, rather than close in around readers. Brimming with humor and wit,...
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Eksmo
Pub. Date
2023
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Russian
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"Posledni�i vecher 1937 goda. K�eti Kontent vmeste so svoe�i podrugo�i Iv poseshcha�i�ut vtorosortny�i dzhaz-bar Grinvich-Villidzh, chtoby otprazdnovat� kanun Novogo goda. Poka devushki pyta�i�uts�i�a razdelit� ostavshies�i�a u nikh tri dollara, sosedni�i stolik zanimaet oba�i�atel�ny�i molodo�i bankir. Tinker Gre�i, tak ego im�i�a, ugoshchaet podrug kokte�ilem i zavodit svetski�i, ni k chemu ne...