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Rules of Civility

Amor Towles

368 pages

About this book

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.

Themes
Fun & LightFunny & SatiricalMelancholic & NostalgicSwoony & RomanticSocial mobility and classThe art of reinventionChance encounters and fateNavigating moral ambiguity
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