Rules of Civility

by Amor Towles

First published 2011 · 415 pages

About this book

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.

  • Fiction
  • Nineteen thirties
  • Man-woman relationships
  • Upper class
  • Young women
  • Large type books
  • Fiction, historical
  • Young women, fiction

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