Towles writes as though through the lens of a camera. It starts 25 years earlier, in flashback, telling the story of not only Tinker, but also Katey and others with picture perfect descriptions of 1938 New York City, the highlights of that period, and it's inhabitants. This novel tells the story of what happened during that year which changed Tinker Grey so much. In a photo dated one year later he looks underweight and dirty in a threadbare coat. In one he's clean shaven, wearing a custom shirt and a cashmere coat. The photos are taken with a hidden camera in a NYC subway car and "captured a certain naked humanity." Katey, our protagonist, sees an old friend, Tinker Grey, in two of these pictures. The author tells us that Evans had waited 25 years to show these photos to the public due to a concern for the subjects' privacy. The prologue to this novel takes place at an exhibition of photographs by Walker Evans in 1966. Towles, who lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children, is an ardent fan of early 20th century painting, 1950’s jazz, 1970’s cop shows, rock & roll on vinyl, obsolete accessories, manifestoes, breakfast pastries, pasta, liquor, snow-days, Tuscany, Provence, Disneyland, Hollywood, the cast of Casablanca, 007, Captain Kirk, Bob Dylan (early, mid, and late phases), the wee hours, card games, cafés, and the cookies made by both of his grandmothers. Both novels have been translated into over fifteen languages. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, published in 2016, was also a New York Times bestseller and was ranked as one of the best books of 2016 by the Chicago Tribune, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. The book was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film and its French translation received the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. His first novel, Rules of Civility, published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. Having worked as an investment professional in Manhattan for over twenty years, he now devotes himself fulltime to writing. Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University.
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