Off the Shelf

The Charming Narrator All Readers Will Want to Befriend November 02, 2017 By Stu Smith

 

A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW, Amor Towles’s incredible follow up to his 2011 debut RULES OF CIVILITY, is not only hard to put down, but it’s difficult to drop your underlining pencil while you read as well. Reading this profound, quotable novel is like spending a day with the classiest friend you have and then wracking your brain after thinking Now, what was that incredibly insightful and merry way he described that one thing—only to find that there were simply too many things to keep track of. READ MORE