If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction in 2011, I’d simply re-read this sparkling, stylish book, with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author’s wit.
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Amor Towles takes Manhattan in debut novel
An ice-cold martini, sullied with the brine of green olives, should come with every copy of Amor Towles’s sophisticated debut novel, Rules Of Civility, which is my book of the year.
