A Gentleman in Moscow

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Call Number: BOCD Fiction, Adult BOCD / Fiction / Historical / Towles, Amor
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

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Compact discs.
Read by Nicholas Guy Smith.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility comes 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 writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change."A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count 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 a doorway 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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elegant, sophisticated, captivating submitted by 21621031390949 on August 25, 2017, 7:29pm Another wonderful book from Amor Towles. This novel about an aristocrat after the Bolshevik revolution is beautifully written and thoroughly engaging. The reader of this recorded book is also very good.

Charming submitted by lballard on July 12, 2018, 3:16pm This book has a very slow start, but then becomes enjoyable. It has interesting characters. It’s also fun to see the War and Peace references. Unfortunately I don’t know enough about other Russian authors to pick up on any other tributes, except the explicit references in the book.

Outstanding reader submitted by mgbrody on August 4, 2018, 11:08pm I loved listening to this book. The reader is outstanding and the story is original, heart-warming and captivating. I highly recommend this book.