Table for two / Amor Towles.

By: Towles, Amor [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: 451 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529154115 (paperback)Subject(s): Marriage -- Fiction | Fate and fatalism -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | New York (N.Y.) -- History -- 21st century -- Fiction | Los Angeles (Calif.) -- FictionGenre/Form: Short stories. DDC classification: 813.6
Contents:
New York -- The line -- The ballard of Timothy Touchett -- Hasta Luego -- I will survive -- The bootlegger -- The didomenico fragment -- Los Angeles -- Eve in Hollywood.
Summary: Millions 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. The 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. 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 a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles. Written with his signature wit, humour, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles's canon of stylish and transporting fiction.
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New York -- The line -- The ballard of Timothy Touchett -- Hasta Luego -- I will survive -- The bootlegger -- The didomenico fragment -- Los Angeles -- Eve in Hollywood.

Millions 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. The 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. 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 a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles. Written with his signature wit, humour, and sophistication, Table for Two is another glittering addition to Towles's canon of stylish and transporting fiction.

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