Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Towles creates a narrative that sparkles with sentences so beautiful you'll stop and re-read them' Stylist. Best-selling author Amor Towles, who has topped the reader lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times, is including two stops in Mississippi as part of an. A witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine' Guardian 'A love letter to the city and the era.

A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel' David Nicholls, author of One Day 'Achingly stylish. I'd simply re-read this sparkling, stylish book, with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author's wit' Herald 'Terrific.

'If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction. A gentleman in Moscow : a novel Authors: Amor Towles (Author), Rock Island Public Library Edition: View all formats and editions Publisher: Rock Island. Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles is the unforgettable debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway In a New York City jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: * how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's * how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year * that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine By the end of the year she'll have learned: * how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best * that chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison * that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat. A Gentleman in Moscow is a truly gripping read.

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