India, April 20 -- From the best-selling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, comes a richly detailed collection of six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden-Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages. In the novella, Eve in Hollywood, Amor Towles takes us through the movie sets, bungalows and dive bars of Los Angeles. This is a collection written with wit, humour, and sophistication....