Rules of Civility - Rambling Readers

335 pages

English language

Published Feb. 11, 2011 by Viking.

ISBN:: 978-0-670-02269-4
OCLC Number:: 681488389

(2 reviews)

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.

15 editions

Tim reviewed Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

hate writing review titles

5 stars

this is a group of characters that I'm not sure are all that likable. But interesting and a time period I have not read much. bat saying the above I couldn't put it down. have to find more of the author's books.

GrandmaY

rated it

April 30, 2019

Subjects

Fiction
Nineteen thirties
Man-woman relationships
Upper class
Young women

Places

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
New York (State)
New York (N.Y.)
New York