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Amor Towles

출생: July 24, 1964 – Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Amor Towles is an American novelist known for elegant historical fiction centered on class, character, and social ritual. He is the author of Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. His work has become internationally bestselling and widely translated, earning broad critical and popular acclaim.

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Raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles came to writing early. He has recalled knowing in first grade that he wanted to be a fiction writer after a poet visited his classroom, an experience that fused reading, performance, and authorship in his imagination. He later graduated from Yale and earned an MA in English from Stanford. Yet his path was not linear. For more than twenty years he worked as an investment professional, and for part of that time he wrote little or not at all. A difficult turning point came when he set aside an earlier novel about Stalinist Russia after years of work, an outcome that forced him to reconsider both his process and his long-held ambition. ((https://www.amortowles.com/amor-towles-bio/))

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And that is why they are the places where the spur of the moment and love at first sight prefer to dwell
-Nighthawks
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A clock-puncher of the highest order, if you will
-All Hail the Long-Suffering Cadaver
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The deeper I delved into the country’s idiosyncratic psychology, the more fascinated I became
-A Gentleman in Moscow: Q and A
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I find this moment in American history fascinating, but less for what was happening than for what was about to happen
-The Lincoln Highway: Q and A
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I figured I was lucky if I could read one book deeply per month
-Rules of Civility: Q & A
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Which is to say, New York in the 1930s already offered a mosaic of the world’s festivities
-Rules of Civility: Context; New York City
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It turned out to be too slim and enigmatic even for me!
-Table for Two: Q and A
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To a bookish boy in a Boston suburb in the mid-1970s, the lyrics of Cole Porter came as something of a revelation
-A Glimpse of Stocking

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"Amor Towles is a master of language and one of the best storytellers of our time"

Bookreporter

"Towles is a supreme storyteller, and this one-of-a-kind kind of novel isn't to be missed"

Publishers Weekly

"Towles is a polymath...at heart, he is a humanist with deep compassion for even the faultiest among us"

Los Angeles Times

"Few contemporary authors quite capture the comic drama of fluctuating fortunes as ably as Towles"

Financial Times

"For all of Amor Towles's literary strengths, he hasn't shown much interest in character transformation"

The Washington Post

"Using multiple points-of-view and shifting from comedy to tragedy and back again, Towles enthralls"

O Quarterly

"Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change"

NPR.org

"Amor Towles's tale of cocktails, silk stockings and retro chic is redolent of all the best New York films and novels"

The Guardian

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