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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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F |
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Author:
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Towles, Amor, |
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Title:
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A Gentleman in Moscow / |
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Summary, etc. note:
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""In all ways a great novel, a nonstop pleasure brimming with charm, personal wisdom, and philosophic insight.this book more than fulfills the promise of Towles' stylish debut, Rules of Civility." - Kirkus Reviews (starred) From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles writes with grace and verve about the mores and manners of a society on the cusp of radical change." A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780670026197 (hardback) |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780735221673 (international edition) |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Classification number:
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PS3620.O945 |
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Item number:
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G46 2016 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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813/.6 |
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Source of number:
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bisacsh |
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Classification number:
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FIC014000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC019000 |
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Classification number:
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FIC037000 |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Amor Towles. |
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Place of publication:
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New York, N.Y. |
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Name of publisher:
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Viking |
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Date of publication:
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2016 |
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New York : |
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Viking, |
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[2016] |
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Extent:
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462 pages : 22.5 cm. |
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Other physical details:
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map ; |
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Dimensions:
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24 cm |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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unmediated |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
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nc |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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Donated by Maggie Caron; replaced 9/22 |
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Purchase price:
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27.00 |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Source of heading or term:
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bisacsh |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Historical. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Literary. |
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Subject:
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FICTION / Political. |
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Subject:
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Russia-Bolshevik era-Fiction. |
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Main entry heading:
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Towles, Amor, author. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : Viking, 2016 |
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Display text:
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Online version: |
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Title:
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Gentleman in Moscow |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2016037069 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780399564048 |
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acquire |
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1 shelf copy |
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policy default |
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xn11 2016-09-24 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver.; |
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HAND CARRY -- NEEDED FOR CONGRESSIONAL LOAN; PLS CONTACT amgo, x72445 / scar, x7717 2016-10-06 |
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xk07 2016-08-10 |
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xk06 2016-10-06 to CALM |
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xk07 2016-08-10 ONIX to CIP |
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xk06 2016-12-23 x-copy to CALM |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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52895 |
F Towles |
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