Rules of civility
by Towles, Amor
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. -- Back cover. A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on…
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- Full title :Rules of civility / Amor Towles.
Summary
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. -- Back cover.
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.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2011
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011
Notes
"A novel"--Cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:335, 27 pages : : illustrations ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780143121169, 0143121162
- oclc:ocn759911254
- LC Classification:PS3620.O945
- Dewey Decimal:813/.6
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