Albert

Albert asked Amor Towles:

Amor, I wondered if you ever wised you had quit the investment banking job and become a full-time writer sooner? I know we all wish you could have.

Amor Towles Dear Albert,
You're nice to say that. But it's hard to re-imagine one's life with a different sequence of events...
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Suzanne

Suzanne asked Amor Towles:

LOVED A Gentleman in Moscow. Re-reading it now, savoring it. Wondering, what is the significance, if any, of the color yellow? Yellow is everywhere. Nina's dresses; the Christmas present; The Yellow Room at the Boyarsky; the yellow hat the girl was wearing on p.230. I read on the internet that yellow is used to evoke Crime and Punishment, in which Dostoyevsky uses that color to symbolize imprisonment. Is this true?

Laura Ouimet

Laura Ouimet asked Amor Towles:

Our book group recently read " A Gentleman in Moscow", which we all loved! One of our members noticed that each of the chapter titles begins with the letter "A". We would like to know if this was intentional, and if so, what is the reason? Thank you!

Kim

Kim asked Amor Towles:

I am reading Rules of Civility and listening to the Audible version while I read, and I noticed an edit in the Audible version. On page 73 (Ch. 5), "Look at this, she groaned. Charlotte Bronte. Emily Bronte. Jane Austen......all die spinsters?" Audible version: the names are changed to Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Emily Bronte, and spinsters changed to "kill themselves." I'm curious why the change?

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