num_pages: 335
description: This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. 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 societywhere she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New Yorks social strata its intricate imagery and themes and its immensely appealing characters Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.
language: English
title: Rules of Civility
publisher: Viking Adult