Rules Of Civility

Towles, Amor

£9.99

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. 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, and how to insist upon the very best.

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Publish Date: 05/01/2012

Description

The New York Times bestseller

‘Achingly stylish’
Guardian

‘Irresistible’
Daily Telegraph

‘Impossibly glamorous’
The Times

‘Fabulous’
Observer

‘Gripping’
Sunday Times

The unforgettable debut by the bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate New York City jazz bar trying to stretch three dollars as far as it will go.

But a chance encounter with the handsome banker at the next table changes everything, opening the door to the upper echelons of New York society and a glittering new social circle. Plunged into a dizzy world of cocktail parties, sprawling mansions and glamorous magazine offices, Katey soon learns that there are rules to play by and riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat . . .

PRAISE FOR AMOR TOWLES

‘Towles is not a one trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range’
Bill Gates

‘He makes it all seem effortless’
Tana French

‘A masterful writer’
Washington Times

‘One of the best of today’s historical novelists’
Express

‘A supreme storyteller’
Publishers Weekly

Additional information

Weight 239 g
Dimensions 197 × 129 × 23 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

335

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K