Eve in Hollywood
Chapters (15)
Cover
Contents
Author Bio
About the Book
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
EVE IN HOLLYWOOD
Epigraph
Charlie
Prentice
Olivia
Litsky
Marcus
Eve
EXTRA
Excerpt from Chapter One of Rules of Civility
Author Bio
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EVE IN HOLLYWOOD
AMOR TOWLES was born and raised just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. For more than twenty years he was an investment professional until he retired in 2013 in order to write full time. His 2011 novel, Rules of Civility, was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives with his wife and two children in Manhattan and serves on the boards of the Library of America, the Yale Art Gallery, and the Wallace Foundation.
About the Book
Near the end of Amor Towles’s bestselling novel Rules of Civility, the fiercely independent Evelyn Ross boards a train from New York to Chicago to visit her parents, but never disembarks. Six months later, she appears in a photograph in a gossip magazine exiting the Tropicana Club on Sunset Boulevard on the arm of Olivia de Havilland.
In this chain of six richly detailed and atmospheric stories, each told from a different perspective, Towles unfolds the events that take Eve to the heart of old Hollywood. Beginning in the dining car of the Golden State Limited in September 1938, we follow Eve to the elegant rooms of the Beverly Hills Hotel, the fabled tables of Antonio’s, the amusement parks on the Santa Monica piers, the afro-Cuban dance clubs off Central Avenue, and ultimately the set of Gone with the Wind.
With the glamour and grit of the studio system’s golden age as a backdrop, Towles introduces in each story a memorable new character whose fate may well be altered by their encounter with Eve. But in following the thread of these varied encounters, we also watch as Eve forges a new and unexpected life for herself in late 1930s Los Angeles.
Title Page
EVE IN HOLLYWOOD
Amor Towles
A PENGUIN SPECIAL
Copyright Page
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ISBN 978-1-101-63092-1
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
