The Didomenico Fragment
by Amor Towles
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This little gem of a novella is bound to please fans of Amor Towles. A snapshot of events in the life of an aging, urbane Upper East Side gentlemen whose circumstances have been reduced by the stock market "correction" of 2008, it's witty and sly and lots of fun. The mini-lectures on Italian Renaissance paintings of the Annunciation and on studioli of that era may have been plot devices, but they managed to be educational and entertaining as well. And I can't imagine a better narrator for this book than John Lithgow.
Exquisite! It was too short. I will to listen again to pick up on the clues.
Delightful!
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Amor Towles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. His novel, "Rules of Civility" reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the show more ten best works of fiction in 2011. The book has been published in 15 languages. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned to be made into a feature film. Viking/Penguin published Towles's next novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Didomenico Fragment
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- 2021-04-01
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- Percival Skinner
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- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, USA
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