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Rules of Civility

Rules of Civility


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About the Book

In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:

The location of every old church in Manhattan,

How to sneak into the cinema,

How to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year,

and that if you can still lose yourself in the first chapter of a Dickens novel then everything is probably going to be fine.

By the end of the year she'd learned:

How to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue,

How to live like a redhead,

How to insist upon the very best,

That the word 'yes' can be a poison,

and the Rules of Civility.

That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weathervane - or the head of a cobra.

Time tells which.

About the Author :
Amor Towles has written fiction which has appeared in The Paris Review. This is his first novel. He lives in New York.

Review :
Achingly stylish...witty, slick production, replete with dark intrigue, period details, and a suitably Katharine Hepburn-like heroine - Guardian

Written with a light, witty touch. - The Age

Put on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself in the life of Katey Kontent, a smart young woman trying to find herself in Manhattan in the late 1930's - Who Magazine

The summer's must-read: gripping and beautiful - Sunday Times

Terrific. A smart, witty, charming dry-martini of a novel - David Nicholls, author of One Day

This novel looks at how spur of the moment decisions can define life for years to come against the backdrop of 1930s New York City - The Newcastle Herald

Towles has written a sophisticated novel about a fascinating but underappreciated moment in US history - The Sydney Morning Herald

This is a flesh-and-blood tale you believe in, with fabulous period detail. It's all too rare to find a fun, glamorous, semi-literary tale to get lost in... While you're lost in the whirl of silk stockings, fur and hip flasks, all you care about is what Katey Kontent does next - Viv Groskop, Observer


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444708844
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Publisher Imprint: Sceptre
  • Height: 31 mm
  • No of Pages: 352
  • Spine Width: 223 mm
  • Width: 136 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1444708848
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jul 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 492 gr


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