"I knew i wanted the the count is going through in the early part of the novel, sort of a a sequence of humiiationsonow, open ended sequence of humiliations. Yet every onow, every every he starts with the house arrest, but then he gets moved to a smaller room immediately, and bens one thing after another," she says. "It's te the the new world cutting into whatever the old world for him used to be."
Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the wellsprings of persistence, and Towles's reading habits.