Exquisite! It was too short. I will to listen again to pick up on the clues. ( )

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.
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