Rules of civility
By: Amor Towles
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780670022694
Subjects: Fiction; Nineteen thirties; Man-woman relationships; Upper class; Young women
Description: 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.
Notes: "A novel"--Jacket.