A Hemingway
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Amor Towles:
I have a very trivial question that has been dogging me: In "A Gentleman", the Count ducks into the coat check room, and there is a line: "Here was a black mink coat with a collar of ermine (or was it sable?)". Was that a reference to The Women (1939) - https://youtu.be/YKqK7U5shFo?t=45s ? Given that the movie is about young women in NYC in the late 1930's, I thought perhaps you were a fellow fan.
Amor Towles
I am a fan of The Women, both the play and the film. I certainly didn't remember this scene in drafting that moment of AGIM. But I love the connection!
:-)
AT
:-)
AT
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Elena
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Amor Towles:
You were kind enough to answer one of my questions, thank you. Just FYI would you be interested in my presumptuous "review" of your delightful book evoking the atmosphere of the Metropol Hotel? https://www.academia.edu/32804842/Genealogy_of_Amor_Towles_Gentleman_in_Moscow.docx My review of Grand Budapest Hotel was published in the American Scholar, text also on Academia.com
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Amor Towles:
Hello! I adore your books and just finished Rules of Civility a few minutes ago. I do have a question though that's nagging at me that I hoped you could answer. When Katey is at the newsstand an the man approaches her and calls her "Sister Sally Salamone," what's going on here? In the earlier paragraph she talks about when they were fourteen?
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