“The book-within-the-novel is both a convenient source of nested tales and a thematic vector, indicating Towles’ commitment to wrestling with classic Americana — that braid of fact, fiction and derring-do so many of us recognize as a birthright, for better or worse”. Bethanne Patrick: How Amor Towles’ quintessential American road trip novel interrogates itself Los Angeles Times, 5. Oktober 2021, abgerufen am 2. August 2022
