Inside the whimsical life of A Gentleman in Moscow author Amor Towles

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Inside the whimsical life of A Gentleman in Moscow author Amor Towles

Known for his buttery prose, Anna Moloney finds the A Gentleman in Moscow author has led a life straight from one of his novels The heroine of Amor Towles’s upcoming novella, Southern belle Evelyn Ross, keeps an important list: things to do before she skedaddles. Churros on the boardwalk, coffee at Chester’s, the Taj Mahal; one by one she dutifully ticks them off in an embrace of her new celebration for lists – which toasts a “thou shalt” rather…