Table for Two
Amor Towles's third book of fiction collects six short stories set in early 2000s New York, paired with a novella titled Eve in Hollywood that follows Evelyn Ross from his debut Rules of Civility. In the New York stories, a husband finds his way back to a marriage through a forged Hemingway signature, an aspiring writer takes the wrong table at a Manhattan diner, and an aging book scout works one last estate sale. In Eve in Hollywood, Eve steps off the Twentieth Century Limited in Los Angeles instead of returning to Indiana, takes a room at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 1938, and falls into the orbit of Olivia de Havilland during the production of Gone with the Wind. The book runs on the same witty, manners-aware register that built A Gentleman in Moscow.
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Six New York stories and a 1930s Hollywood novella about Evelyn Ross arriving at the Beverly Hills Hotel, in the witty literary register Towles fans expect.
Yes. Table for Two is Amor Towles's 2024 collection of six short stories plus one novella titled Eve in Hollywood. Eve appears as a side character in his earlier Rules of Civility.
The Eve in Hollywood novella in Table for Two is a sequel to events in Rules of Civility, so reading the earlier novel first deepens the experience. The other six stories stand alone.
Table for Two was written by Amor Towles, published in 2024 by Penguin Books, Limited.
Table for Two is 448 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Table for Two takes most readers 7 to 10 hours to finish.
Table for Two is a standalone novel by Amor Towles, not part of a series.
Table for Two is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
