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A Gentleman in Moscow Hardcover - 2016 - 1st Edition

by Amor Towles


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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.In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.

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  • Title A Gentleman in Moscow
  • Author Amor Towles
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Viking, New York
  • Date 2016-09-06
  • ISBN 9780670026197 / 0670026190
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 16.00 x 4.32 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Self-realization
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016030082
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 07/01/2016, Page 41
  • Kirkus Reviews, 07/01/2016, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 01/01/0001, Page 0
  • Library Journal Prepub Alert, 04/15/2016, Page 64
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/11/2016, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/09/2016, Page 0

About the author

Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow. The two novels have collectively sold more than four million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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