000			01456cam a2200205 4500
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010			_a 2016030082
020			_a9781786330383
100	1		_aTowles, Amor. _e
245	1	2	_aA gentleman in Moscow / _cAmor Towles.
264		1	_aLondon : _bHutchinson, _c2016.
300			_a462 pages : _bmap ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aA Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in an 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. _cProvided by publisher.
650		7	_aHistorical fiction.
650		7	_aPolitical fiction. _2
650		7	_aSoviet Union -- Fiction. _2
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