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008 240411s2016 nyub 000 1 eng d
020 _a9781524708696
082 1 _aLARP FIC TOW
100 1 _aTowles, Amor
245 1 2 _aA gentleman in Moscow
_c/ Amor Towles
260 _aNew York
_b: Ramdon House Large Print
_c, 2016
300 _a719 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 24 cm
520 _a 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.
546 _aEnglish
650 4 _aAristocracy (Social class)
_x-Fiction
650 4 _aHome detention
_v--Fiction
650 4 _aInterpersonal relations--
_vFiction
650 4 _aHotels
_v--Fiction
650 4 _aLarge print
651 4 _aMoscow (Russia)
_v--Fiction
655 4 _aHistorical fiction
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