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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \n \n More than ONE MILLION copies sold\n\nA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick\n\nA New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year\n\n\"Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.\" -The New York Times Book Review\n \n \"A classic that we will read for years to come.\" -Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club\n \n \"A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.\" - NPR\n \nThe bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America\n\nIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York.\n\n Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. \"Once again, I was wowed by Towles's writing-especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero's journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.\" - Bill Gates

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È la notte di capodanno del 1937 all’Hotspot, un night club del Greenwich Village a New York. In fondo a una pista da ballo piccola e vuota, un quartetto jazz suona stancamente. A un tavolo appartato, Evelyn Ross e Katey Kontent ostentano senza problemi la loro giovanile e spensierata avvenenza. Avendo in borsa una manciata di centesimi ciascuna e in testa l’idea di continuare a bere, si apprestano a fare gli occhi dolci al contrabbassista o al barista di turno quando un giovane uomo fa il suo ingresso nel locale. Capelli castani e occhi azzurri, cravatta nera e un elegantissimo cappotto appoggiato al braccio, il giovane emana buone maniere e quattrini. È, infatti, Theodore Grey, detto Tinker, banchiere a Wall Street e, di lì a poco, l’uomo del destino per le due ragazze, colui che le condurrà nella buona società newyorkese di fine anni Trenta, prima che tutto precipiti nel baratro di una guerra i cui venti spirano già in Europa.

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Un libro che, al suo apparire negli Stati Uniti, è stato salutato come un'ulteriore versione del grande romanzo americano e dei suoi eterni temi: il viaggio e l'avventura, la colpa e la redenzione, il riscatto e la speranza.«Ogni personaggio di quest'opera di Towles è il protagonista di un'avventura unica e universale... Un romanzo permeato di luce, spirito, giovinezza... che pullula di storie, grandiose come leggende» – New York Times Book Review«Un'avventura piena di personaggi indimenticabili, suspense e scenari vividi che faranno volare i lettori attraverso le pagine» – Time«Meravigliosamente scritto... un classico che continueremo a leggere negli anni a venire» – Jenna Bush HagerIn un giorno di giugno del 1954, Emmett Watson torna a casa. Il direttore della prigione, un uomo dalle buone intenzioni, con una fotografia di Franklin Delano Roosevelt appesa dietro la scrivania, lo ha accompagnato in macchina. Un viaggio di tre ore, dal Kansas al Nebraska, da Salina a Morgen. Dopo piú di un anno trascorso a scontare una pena che pesa soprattutto sul suo cuore, Emmett non vede l'ora di impacchettare le sue cose e quelle di Billy, il fratello di otto anni, e filarsela in Texas con la Studebaker azzurra del '48 che lo aspetta nel fienile. Sua madre è andata via da un pezzo, suo padre è morto, e quel che resta della fattoria, con i suoi infissi storti, i campi abbandonati, il tetto imbarcato, è ormai una faccenda degli strozzini della banca. Per rifarsi una vita non resta che il Texas, dove costruiscono e ristrutturano case a più non posso. Il problema, però, è che Billy ha appreso come andare alla ventura dalla sua bibbia personale, Il compendio degli eroi, degli avventurieri e degli altri intrepidi viaggiatori del professor Abacus Abernathe, e ha perciò concepito tutt'altra meta: prendere la Lincoln Highway, la prima strada a percorrere l'America da una parte all'altra, e procedere in direzione di San Francisco, per arrivare giusto il quattro di luglio, il giorno di un grande spettacolo di fuochi d'artificio in cui è misteriosamente certo di incontrare sua madre. Il problema è anche che il direttore della prigione non ha trasportato soltanto Emmett da Salina a Morgen. Nascosti nel bagagliaio dell'auto, come abili contorsionisti, altri due ragazzi ospiti del carcere minorile di Salina sono giunti a Morgen: Duchessa, che ha appreso tutto dalla strada e dal «capriccioso dito del fato», e Woolly, che ha sempre bisogno di qualcosa per tenere a bada il mondo. E la loro intenzione è salire a bordo della Studebaker azzurra di Emmett e prendere la direzione opposta, verso New York, dove andare alla ricerca di ben centocinquantamila dollari. Nel giugno del 1954, Emmett, Billy, Duchessa e Woolly, animati dalla «feroce necessità» della gioventú, vanno cosí all'assalto dei «fuochi cupi del tramonto» e del «cielo eterno e insensibile» del paesaggio americano, come recitano i magnifici versi di Willa Cather posti in esergo a questo libro, salutato, al suo apparire...

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Mosca, 21 giugno 1922. Il conte Aleksandr Rostov, decorato con l'Ordine di Sant'Andrea, membro del Jockey Club, Maestro di caccia, viene scortato attraverso i cancelli del Cremlino che danno sulla Piazza Rossa fino alla suite 317 del Grand Hotel Metropol. Chiamato al Cremlino per un téte à téte, il Conte è apparso dinanzi al «Comitato d'Emergenza del Commissariato del Popolo», il tribunale bolscevico che l'ha condannato, senza remore e senz'appello, a trascorrere il resto dei suoi giorni agli arresti domiciliari per essersi «irrevocabilmente arreso alle corruzioni della propria classe sociale». La condanna non ammette errori: se mai dovesse mettere un piede fuori dal Metropol, il Conte sarà fucilato. Inaugurato nel 1905, il Metropol è un Grand Hotel tra i più sfarzosi di Russia. Le sue suite art déco e i suoi rinomati ristoranti sono stati un punto di riunione di tutte le persone ricche di stile, influenti ed erudite. Ma per un uomo come Rostov, abituato a viaggiare in lungo e in largo per il mondo e a condurre un'intensa vita sociale, quella detenzione, seppure in un lussuoso albergo, si rivela al pari di una gabbia per un leone. Sebbene sia risaputo che non è da gentiluomini avere un'occupazione, Rostov inizia a rendersi conto di quanto sia gravoso trascorrere la vita leggendo, cenando e riflettendo. Fino al giorno in cui si imbatte nella ragazzina che ama il giallo, una piccola ospite dell'albergo intrepida e curiosa. Nina Kulikova, al pari del Conte, vive al Metropol in cattività, eppure la bambina ha trovato il modo di far espandere le pareti dell'hotel verso l'esterno, scovando passaggi nascosti e stanze segrete. Sarà Nina a farsi carico dell'educazione del Conte. Un'educazione che lo porterà a comprendere quanto vasto sia il mondo e affascinanti i personaggi che lo popolano, sia pure tra le quattro mura di un albergo.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER \n \n More than ONE MILLION copies sold\n\nA TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick\n\nA New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year\n\n\"Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.\" -The New York Times Book Review\n \n \"A classic that we will read for years to come.\" -Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club\n \n \"A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.\" - NPR\n \nThe bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America\n\nIn June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction-to the City of New York.\n\n Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. \"Once again, I was wowed by Towles's writing-especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero's journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.\" - Bill Gates

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The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a Showtime/Paramount series starring Ewan McGregor as Count Alexander Rostov\n\nFrom the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel\n\n 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.\n\n 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.

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THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nFROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITY AND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW\n\n'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER\n\n'An absolute beauty of a book. As soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again' TANA FRENCH\n\n'Welcome to the enormous pleasure that is The Lincoln Highway . . . in which the miles fly by and the pages turn fast' ANN PATCHETT\n\nIn 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.\n\nBut 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.\n\n'Already feels like an American coming of age classic' RED\n\n'The best novel I've read in years' CHRIS CLEAVE\n\n'Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth' THE NEW YORK TIMES

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THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, THE NEW DAZZLING NOVEL BY AMOR TOWLES, OUT NOW\n\nOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV series starring Ewan McGregor \n_________________________\n'A wonderful book' - Tana French\n\n'This novel is astonishing, uplifting and wise. Don't miss it' - Chris Cleave\n\n'No historical novel this year was more witty, insightful or original' - Sunday Times, Books of the Year\n\n'[A] supremely uplifting novel ... It's elegant, witty and delightful - much like the Count himself.' - Mail on Sunday, Books of the Year\n\n'Charming ... shows that not all books about Russian aristocrats have to be full of doom and nihilism' - The Times, Books of the Year\n_________________________\nOn 21 June 1922, Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol.\n\nDeemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. But instead of his usual suite, he must now live in an attic room while Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval.\n\nCan a life without luxury be the richest of all?\n_________________________\nA BOOK OF THE DECADE, 2010-2020 (INDEPENDENT)\nTHE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017\nA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017\nA MAIL ON SUNDAY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017\nA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017\nAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017\nONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017\nONE OF BILL GATES'S SUMMER READS OF 2019\nNOMINATED FOR THE 2018 INDEPENDENT BOOKSELLERS WEEK AWARD

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In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter.\n\nWith his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.\n\nBut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.\n\nBursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller.

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility and the forthcoming novel The Lincoln Highway, a story about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel-a beautifully transporting novel. \n\nThe mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series\n\n 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.\n\n 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.

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Rules Of Civility by Amor Towles is the unforgettable debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway\n\nIn a New York City 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: \n * how to sneak into the cinema, and steal silk stockings from Bendel's\n * how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year\n * that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine\n\n By the end of the year she'll have learned:\n * how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best\n * that chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison\n * that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat . . .\n\n'If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction . . . I'd simply re-read this sparkling, stylish book, with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author's wit' Herald\n\n'Terrific. A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel' David Nicholls, author of One Day\n\n'Achingly stylish . . . A witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine' Guardian\n\n'A love letter to the city and the era . . . Towles creates a narrative that sparkles with sentences so beautiful you'll stop and re-read them' Stylist

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FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY AND RULES OF CIVILITY\n\n'A knockout . . . Table for Two is a winner'\nNEW YORK TIMES\n\n'There is no better writer working today'\nCHRIS CLEAVE\n\n'He makes it all seem effortless'\nTANA FRENCH\n\nMillions 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nIn 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.\n\nWritten with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles’s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.\n\nPraise for The Lincoln Highway:\n\n\"A rollicking cross-country adventure, rife with unforgettable characters, vivid scenery and suspense\nthat will keep readers flying through the pages.\" Time\n\n\"Elegantly constructed and compulsively readable . . . hitch onto this delightful tour de force and you'll be pulled straight through to the end, helpless against the inventive exuberance of Towles' storytelling.\" NPR\n\n\"Wise and wildly entertaining . . . Towles goes all in on the kind of episodic, exuberant narrative\nhaywire found in myth or Homeric epic.\" The New York Times Book Review

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In a medieval French courtroom, animals are put on trial for \"crimes\" against mankind and must rely on preposterous legal diatribes by a court-appointed lawyer to defend them-great for fans of Umberto Eco, Edward Carey, and Amor Towles. \n\n\nHistorical fiction has never been more uproarious as master storyteller Stephen Spotte unleashes this wild tale of opposing attorneys battling to defend or prosecute accused animals-including a rat and a pig-facing penalties of being hanged or burned alive at the stake: Think Willard meets The Name of the Rose. Based on actual court records, Spotte captures the wit and bluster of the era, where courtrooms were packed with cheering and heckling spectators in ever-more opaque, convoluted, and dilatory trials. By the end of this novel, Spotte uses his critically-acclaimed storytelling skills to explore still-relevant theories on legal precedent, the church vs. the state, mankind's place in nature, and animal rights. Hilarious insights into pride, greed, and some of the most bizarre court trials in the history of the world. \"Spotte is a master storyteller,\" says Library Journal and in ANIMAL WRONGS, this acclaimed author is at his peak.

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