Title: Rules of Civility
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Nineteen thirties, Man-woman relationships, Upper class, Young women, Large type books, Fiction, historical, Young women, fiction, Wall street (new york, n.y.), fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Jeunes femmes, Romans, nouvelles, Classes supérieures, Années trente (Vingtième siècle), Relations entre hommes et femmes, Social life and customs, Manners and customs, nyt:hardcover-fiction=2011-08-14, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, New Year, Jealousy, Cliques (Sociology), Roman, Amerikanisches Englisch, Fiction, historical, general, Junge Frau, Freundin, Lebemann, Schickeria
Places: Wall Street (New York, N.Y.), New York (State), New York (N.Y.), New York, Wall Street, New York (État), New York (N. Y.), NY New York