Alex Peake-Tomkinson

An insight into the American Dream: Table for Two, by Amor Towles, reviewed

Recent short stories and a novella all feature protagonists in pursuit of an ambition that puts them in varying degrees of peril

Amor Towles at home in New York in March this year. [Jeenah Moon for the Washington Post via Getty Images] 
issue 22 June 2024
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  • Table for Two

    Amor Towles

    Hutchinson Heinemann, pp. 480, £18

Amor Towles was a Wall Street banker before he published his first novel, Rules of Civility, in 2011, at the age of 46. Since then, his books have sold six million copies, and the second, A Gentleman in Moscow (2016), has been made into a Paramount + series starring Ewan McGregor.

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