EAN: 9780593831236

TABLE FOR TWO - AMOR TOWLES KARTONIERT (TB)

An International BestsellerA knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped
like a box of Neuhaus chocolates  Table for Two is a winner.” —The New York TimesFrom the
bestselling author of Rules of Civility  A Gentleman in Moscow  and The Lincoln Highway  a
richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories  including a novella featuring one of
his most beloved characters 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. In Towles’s novel Rules of Civility 
the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of
returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago  where her parents are waiting 
she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view  Eve in
Hollywood” describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself—and others—in a noirish tale that
takes us through the movie sets  bungalows  and dive bars of 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.

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