Towles creates a narrative that sparkles with sentences so beautiful you'll stop and re-read them. That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. That riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat,Ĭhance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison. How to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a yearĪnd that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine. The location of every old church in Manhattan In a 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: I'd simply re-read this sparkling, stylish book, with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author's wit' Herald 'If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction. witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine' Guardian A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel ' David Nicholls, author of One Day THE UNFORGETTABLE DEBUT BY THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW
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