7/7/2023 0 Comments A gentleman in moscow author![]() ![]() It is a big book, akin to-appropriately- Anna Karenina or The Brothers Karamazov. In more than one word, it is literary, witty, and sprawling. ![]() In one word, A Gentleman in Moscow is masterful. Because if anyone had interrupted me during those last few sweat-inducing chapters, I might have shrieked at him or her in Russian to leave me alone. No one bothered me at Starbucks the other day when I was finishing his new novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was a very good thing. This is a line I loved-and one that has stuck with me-from Amor Towles’ first novel, the critically acclaimed and wholly engaging Rules of Civility. “It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is much more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.” Rating: Na zdorovie! Cheers to house arrest with cocktails ![]()
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