A New York Times Bestseller “This may be Towles’ best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying
as a master chef’s main course filled with drama wit erudition and most of all heart.” —
Los Angeles Times “The book spans the 20th century bringing characters into tableaus of
deceit and desire. Beneath his coifed prose Towles is a master of the shiv the bait and switch
we see the flash of light before the shock wave strikes often in the final sentence. . . .
Table for Two delivers the kick of a martini served in the Polo Lounge.” – The New York Times
Book Review Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter
fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New
York stories most of which take place around the year 2000 consider the fateful consequences
that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at
the heart of modern marriages. Told from seven points of view “Eve in Hollywood” describes how
one of Towles’s most beloved characters the indomitable Evelyn Ross from Rules of Civility
crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie
sets bungalows and dive bars of 1930s Los Angeles. Written with his signature wit humor
and sophistication Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish
and transporting fiction.
