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THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETTIn June, 1954, ...

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 AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank...

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 AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank...

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 AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank...

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 AmericaIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the work farm where he has just served a year for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank...

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.With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two...

Finely observed and beautifully written. Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller.' JEFFREY ARCHER_________________________Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow.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 involunt...

Aleksandr Rostov, aristâocrata y erudito irredento, es un cliente asiduo del Metropol, el hotel mâas esplâendido de Moscâu. Nunca ha trabajado desde que dejâo de estudiar, y aplica todo su ingenio y refinamiento a su pasiâon por los vinos, la gastronomâia y la literatura. En 1922, los bolcheviques lo condenan a muerte, sin embargo, un poema revolucionario escrito una dâecada antes lo salva de la pena capital, que el tribunal le conmuta por la ...

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The book is like a salve. I think the world feels disordered right now. The count's refinement and genteel nature are exactly what we're longing for." -Ann Patchett"How delightful that in an era as crude as ours this finely composed novel stretches out with old-World elegance." -The Washington Post He can't leave his hotel. You won't want to. From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility-a transporting novel about a man who i...

Mosca, 21 giugno 1922. Il conte Aleksandr Rostov, decorato con l'Ordine di Sant'Andrea, membro del Jockey Club, Maestro di caccia, viene scortato attraverso i cancelli del Cremlino che danno sulla Piazza Rossa fino alla suite 317 del Grand Hotel Metropol. Chiamato al Cremlino per un téte à téte, il Conte è apparso dinanzi al «Comitato d'Emergenza del Commissariato del Popolo», il tribunale bolscevico che l'ha condannato, senza remore e senz'ap...

Moskau, 1922. Der genussfreudige Lebemann Graf Rostov wird verhaftet und zu lebenslangem Hausarrest verurteilt, ausgerechnet im Hotel Metropol, dem ersten Haus am Platz. Er muss alle bisher genossenen Privilegien aufgeben und eine Arbeit als Hilfskellner annehmen. Rostov mit seinen 30 Jahren ist ein äußerst liebenswürdiger, immer optimistischer Gentleman. Trotz seiner eingeschränkten Umstände lebt er ganz seine Überzeugung, dass selbst kleine ...

Moskau, 1922. Der genussfreudige Lebemann Graf Rostov wird verhaftet und zu lebenslangem Hausarrest verurteilt, ausgerechnet im Hotel Metropol, dem ersten Haus am Platz. Er muss alle bisher genossenen Privilegien aufgeben und eine Arbeit als Hilfskellner annehmen. Mit seinen 30 Jahren ist Rostov ein äußerst liebenswürdiger, immer optimistischer Gentleman. Trotz seiner eingeschränkten Umstände lebt er ganz seine Überzeugung, dass selbst kleine ...

È la notte di capodanno del 1937 all'Hotspot, un night club del Greenwich Village a New York. In fondo a una pista da ballo piccola e vuota, un quartetto jazz suona stancamente. A un tavolo appartato dell'Hotspot, tuttavia, Evelyn Ross e Katey Kontent ostentano senza problemi la loro giovanile e spensierata avvenenza. Evelyn, bionda naturale, capelli lunghi fino alle spalle, è una di quelle tipiche bellezze del Midwest che volgono a un certo p...

Amor Towles was born and raised in the Boston area. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University. An investment professional for over twenty years, he now devotes himself full time to writing. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.

Mosca, 21 giugno 1922. Il conte Aleksandr Il'ic Rostov, decorato con l'Ordine di Sant'Andrea, membro del Jockey Club, Maestro di caccia, viene scortato attraverso i cancelli del Cremlino che danno sulla Piazza Rossa fino alla suite 317 del Grand Hotel Metropol. Chiamato al Cremlino per un tête à tête, il Conte è apparso dinanzi al «Comitato d'Emergenza del Commissariato del Popolo», il tribunale bolscevico che l'ha condannato, senza remore e s...

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New York, Neujahr 1937: Die beiden Freundinnen Kate und Eve - zwei Provinzschönheiten, die die Welt erobern wollen - gabeln in einer Jazzkneipe den charmanten Tinker Grey auf. Er trägt Kaschmir und scheint Single zu sein - ein Sechser im Lotto. Eine turbulente Freundschaft à trois beginnt. Die beiden jungen Frauen weisen Tinker in die geheime Kunst des Schnorrens ein, und Tinker revanchiert sich, indem er sie in die feinsten Clubs der City aus...

New York, Neujahr 1937: Die beiden Freundinnen Kate und Eve - zwei Provinzschönheiten, die die Welt erobern wollen - gabeln in einer Jazzkneipe den charmanten Tinker Grey auf. Er trägt Kaschmir und scheint Single zu sein - ein Sechser im Lotto. Eine turbulente Freundschaft à trois beginnt. Die beiden jungen Frauen weisen Tinker in die geheime Kunst des Schnorrens ein, und Tinker revanchiert sich, indem er sie in die feinsten Clubs der City aus...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society-now with over one million readers worldwide 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....