Amor Towles
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""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight.this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) 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...
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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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"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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From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) book about 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
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Publicaciones y Ediciones Salamandra
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2018.
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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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Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Una arrolladora novela de iniciación, por el autor de Un caballero en Moscú.
Número uno en la lista de best-sellers de The New York Times.
Tras el formidable éxito de público y crítica de sus dos primeras novelas, Normas de cortesía -escogida por The Wall Street Journal como uno de los mejores libros del año 2011 y ganadora
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