Rules of civility - Rambling Readers

579 pages

English language

Published Feb. 12, 2011 by Thorndike Press.

ISBN:: 978-1-4104-4324-3

(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.

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Tim reviewed Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

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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

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April 30, 2019

Subjects

Large type books
Nineteen thirties
Upper class
Fiction
Young women

Places

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