a storytelling style…

Book review:

A Gentleman in Moscow

by Amor Towles (b1964)\

New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Inc., 2016

462 pages

A Gentleman in Moscow has an almost simplistic plot line: a nobleman is condemned to perpetual house arrest, living in an attic room in a fine hotel in Moscow in the 1920s.

What Towles brings to the party is an almost casual storytelling style embedded in a fecundity of warmly engaging words and people.

It’s simply true that I was drawn to continue reading about Count Alexander Rostov and Nina.

You can imagine how the story ends. I could.

Caveat: Towles didn’t need 462 pages to tell this story in the best way.

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