pinknantucket reviewed Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
I really liked it
4 stars
Bookclub book. My copy: bought new.
335 pages
English language
Published Aug. 7, 2011 by Viking.
Rules of civility
by Amor Towles
4 stars
(4 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.
Subjects
- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties
- Man-woman relationships
- Upper class
- Young women
Places
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (State)
- New York (N.Y.)
- New York