Amor Towles Book order (chronological)

Moskva, New York, Los Angeles. Sedm příběhů od autora bestselleru Gentleman v Moskvě. Na konci Towlesova románu Pravidla zdvořilosti opouští Evelyn Rossová New York a vrací se domů. V Chicagu si to ale na poslední chvíli rozmyslí a namísto toho se vydává do Los Angeles… Je rok 1938 a Hollywood zažívá „zlatou éru“. Obstojí Eve ve světě stříbrného plátna? Kromě novely Eve v Hollywoodu obsahuje Stůl pro dva šest povídek zasazených převážně do současného New Yorku. Začínající spisovatel začne padělat podpisy slavných autorů. Mladá žena sleduje svého otčíma, aby zjistila, jestli není nevěrný její matce. Bývalý rolník v porevolučním Rusku objeví nadání pro stání ve frontách. Ve všech příbězích se vyskytuje okamžik, kdy se dvě postavy octnou proti sobě u stolu, a na jejich dalších slovech často závisí jejich budoucnost…

Die legendären dreißiger Jahre in Hollywood – leichtfüßig, witzig und elegant erzählt. „Amor Towles ist ein Meistererzähler.“ New York Times Book Review Eine umwerfende Gesellschaftssatire vom Autor des Bestsellers „Ein Gentleman in Moskau“: Amor Towles erzählt mit augenzwinkernder Eleganz, wie eine Frau aus der Provinz die Glamourwelt Hollywoods austrickst. Nachdem Eve mit ihrem Freund in New York Schluss gemacht hat, bricht sie nach Los Angeles auf. Wenig später wird sie mit der berühmten Olivia de Havilland in den angesagten Lokalen Hollywoods gesehen. Es ist die Zeit, als „Vom Winde verweht“ gedreht wird und die Studios sich gegenseitig die Schauspielerinnen abjagen. Die ebenso raffinierte wie rätselhafte Eve gibt kaum etwas von sich preis, verwirrt jeden Möchtegern und Betrüger, der ihr begegnet, bis sie diejenige ist, die zuletzt lacht.

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories set in New York and Los Angeles. The millions of readers of Amor Towles are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter 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 compromise which 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 the midst of Hollywood’s golden age. Throughout the stories, two characters often find themselves sitting across a table for two where the direction of their futures may hinge upon what they say to each other next.Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting historical fiction.

THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH 'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett returns home to his younger brother Billy after serving fifteen months in a juvenile facility for involuntary manslaughter. They are getting ready to leave their old life behind and head out to sunny California. But they're not alone. Two runaways from the youth work farm, Duchess and Wolly, have followed Emmett all the way to Nebraska with a plan of their own, one that will take the four of them on an unexpected and fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City. 'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' RED 'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE 'Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth' THE NEW YORK TIMES

The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers • A New York Times “Readers’ Choice: Best Books of the 21st Century” Pick From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Table for Two, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and 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 entry 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.

In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year and that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine. By the end of the year she'd learned: how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best; that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat, chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison. That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.