“Dry witted” investment banker turned bestselling modern-day F. Scott Fitzgerald-esque author Amor Towles is a civilised gent who has “led a life straight from one of his novels”
Table for Two – “six stories based in New York” around the turn of the millennium and “a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood” – is the latest “knockout” work from Boston born author Amor Towles (published May 2024) if you’d believe The New York Times. Of it, The Times enthused further: “If you take only one book on holiday this summer, you couldn’t ask for a better literary capsule wardrobe.”
Whilst the extraordinarily eccentric Nubar Gulbenkian once suggested: “The best number for a dinner party is two – myself and a damn good head waiter,” Table for Two’s fiction delves into a world where the Financial Times’s Christian House suggests a mixture of “misunderstood hustlers wear cashmere, washed-up thespians outwit playboys and aristocrats wait tables.” He presents “excellent company” and “grand and seamy lodgings, loveable chancers and outrageous parties — with warmth and irreverence.”
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Yale College and Stanford University educated and an ex-investment banker, Towles – whose fans range from the tech pioneer Bill Gates to President Barrack Obama – is most definitely a modern-day F. Scott Fitzgerald in terms of the observations he makes about society, the rich and indulgence.
Towles lives with his wife and two children between Gramercy Park, New York and a house with its own lake in Upstate New York, describes himself as “comfortable with solitude” and lists his hobbies as “collecting fine art and antiquities.” His biggest hit, A Gentleman in Moscow, premiered as a film starring Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead in March 2024 whilst the making of a film adaptation of The Lincoln Highway is underway also.
Follow this social media savvy bestselling author on Twitter at @amortowles and on Instagram at @amortowles.
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