![]() ![]() ![]() Read More: The 34 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2021 ![]() In the storybook life of Amor Towles, however, the new owner lays down thick Oriental rugs (thicker still where they overlap), sets his laptop on a long oval table by floor-to-ceiling windows and-with wife, son, daughter and a nephew within earshot-rides out a pandemic writing a new book. “Which, in a Stephen King novel, would end badly.” “It was this weird thing where I was kind of buying the living room that I had written about,” he says. ceiling that, like the glistening lake outside, now belongs entirely to him. “I was like, This is it!” says Towles, throwing his arms toward a 30-ft. He could only imagine the appeal of such an exalted communal space-“this great room where the family gathers”-until, while shopping for a second home with the money from that book, he found himself touring a property an hour and a half north of Manhattan. Credit - Isabel Magowan for TIMEĪmor Towles had never actually been beneath the vaulted ceiling of an Adirondack lake house when he described the one in his 2011 debut, the best-selling Rules of Civility. Amor Towles, the best-selling author of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow, prepares to release his third novel, The Lincoln Highway. ![]()
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