Table for Two by Amor Towles KNOPF converge on a fifteen-bedroom house

converge on a fifteen-bedroom house in Cornwall for Christmas

Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary

It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children

“Rachel Carson is a pivotal figure of the twentieth century…people who thought one way before her essential 1962 book Silent Spring thought another way after it

Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s

Table for Two by Amor Towles KNOPF converge on a fifteen-bedroom houseA New York Times Bestseller This may be Towles best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chefs main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart. Los Angeles Times The book spans the 20th century, bringing characters into tableaus of deceit and desire. Beneath his coifed prose Towles is a master of the shiv, the bait and switch; we see the flash of light before the shock wave strikes, often in the final sentence. . . .