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Foyles
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike. SEE LESS On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike. SEE LESS ABOUT RULES OF CIVILITY From the New York Times-bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, a “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) novel of a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike. SEE LESS We launched ourselves into the evening like satellites and orbited the city two miles above the earth, powered by failing, fallen currencies and finely filtered spirits. This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighbouring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.
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WHAT THEY SAID about RULES OF CIVILITY: 'Everything about this novel set in 1930s New York is achingly stylish - from the author's name to the slinky jacket design. Katey Kontent daughter of Russian immigrants and Evie Ross from the sleepy midwest are an ambitious wisecracking pair who despite lack of money and connections aim to set the city alight. A fortuitous meeting with the apparently wealthy Tinker Grey on New Year's Eve 1937 will change the course of both their lives.' - Guardian 'If you want shopping at Bendel's gin martinis at a debutante's mansion and jazz bands playing until 3am RULES OF CIVILITY has it all and more ...While you're lost in the whirl of silk stockings furs and hip flasks all you care about is what Katey Kontent does next. Another one bartender please.' - Observer 'Irresistible ...A cross between Dorothy Parker and Holly Golightly Katey Kontent is a priceless narrator in her own right - the brains of a bluestocking with the legs of a flapper and the mores of Carrie Bradshaw.' - Telegraph 'Towles creates a narrative that sparkles with sentences so beautiful you'll stop and re-read them.A delicious and memorable novel that will leave you wistful ...and desperate for a martini.' - Stylist 'My book of the year. If the unthinkable happened and I could never read another new work of fiction in 2011 I'd simply re-read this sparkling stylish book with yet another round of martinis as dry as the author's wit.' - Herald
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Blackwell
For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. WHAT THEY SAID about RULES OF CIVILITY: 'Everything about this novel, set in 1930s New York, is achingly stylish - from the author's name to the slinky jacket...
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BookDepository
Rules of Civility : Paperback : Hodder & Stoughton : 9781444708875 : 1444708872 : 02 Feb 2012 : For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's, this a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938.
- 1444708872
- 9781444708875
- Amor Towles
- 5 January 2012
- Sceptre
- Paperback (Book)
- 352
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