Rules of civility
Author
Format:
Books
Physical Description
335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Production / Publication Information
New York : Viking, 2011.
Summary
This novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. A chance encounter with Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults twenty-five-year-old Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into a year-long journey in 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. Here in the executive suites of Conde Nast rareified environs, she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. She experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that lie just beow the surface. The novel offers a sparkling depiction of New York's social strata, intricate imagery and themes, a finely crafted unfoding of the unforeseen, and immensely appealing characters, the heroine in particular. -- From book jacket.
Call Number
FIC/TOWLES
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9780670022694 9780143121169
Rules of civility
Author
Format:
Large print
Physical Description
579 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Production / Publication Information
Waterville, Me. : Thorndike Press, 2011.
Call Number
LP/FIC/TOWLES
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
ISBN
9781410443243 9781594135514
by
Towles, Amor
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Libby
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Towles, Amor
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