![]() ![]() ![]() Katey, too, appreciates her friends, but in a more offhand manner-seeking or eschewing their company as it suits her mood or needs. ![]() The Count has deep, genuine, and lasting connections with those people he counts among his friends-be they cook, revolutionary, poet or child. At the worst of times, he finds pleasure in the most basic events. Although his fortunes literally and figuratively spiral downward, his spirit and joie de vivre are rarely diminished. The Count enjoys similar simple pleasures-but he savors them, appreciating that it is these small joys that make a life worth living. But her enjoyment is fleeting-a moment marked in time, appreciated, and discarded without sentimentality. She enjoys people-watching, a well-written book, a well-timed phrase or gesture. Katherine (Katey) is a woman who enjoy life's smaller pleasures. He, too, can easily recognize a custom-made suit or a fine glass of liquor-not because he aspires to have them, but because he had always had them. It takes place within the confines of the fictionalized Metropol Hotel in Moscow, where Count Alexander Rostov has been sentenced to a lifetime of house arrest. A Gentleman in Moscow spans a tumultuous period in Russian history-from the Bolshevik Revolution to the Cold War. The young secretary, Katherine Kontent, can recognize a custom-made suit, an expensive lighter, or a fine glass of liquor because she aspires to have fine things. Rules of Civility spans a single year-1938 in New York City. ![]()
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