Format:
Book
Author:
Towles, Amor.
Title:
A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Viking, ©2016.
Description:
462 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Aristocracy (Social class) -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Fiction.
Home detention -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Fiction.
Hotels -- Russia (Federation) -- Moscow -- Fiction.
Moscow (Russia) -- History -- Fiction.
Soviet Union -- History -- 1917-1936 -- Fiction.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN:
2016030082
ISBN:
9780670026197
0670026190
9780735221673
9780143110439 (pbk.)
9780735222984
9780670026197
9780143110439
Other Number:
944380324
System Availability:
46
Current Holds:
1
Control Number:
263477
Call Number:
FIC Towles Amor
Course Reserves:
0
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4