Alex Peake-Tomkinson

An insight into the American Dream: Table for Two, by Amor Towles, reviewed

Recent short stories and a novella all feature protagonists in pursuit of an ambition that puts them in varying degrees of peril

Amor Towles at home in New York in March this year. [Jeenah Moon for the Washington Post via Getty Images]
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  • Table for Two

    Amor Towles

    Hutchinson Heinemann, pp. 480, £18

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