Rules of Civility: A Novel
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and A Gentleman in Moscow, a "sharply stylish" (Boston Globe) book about a young woman in post-Depression era New York who suddenly finds herself thrust into high society--now with over one million readers worldwide
On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is...show more
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A roaring time in the romance of youth in New York where glamour and sprite makes the reader feel like this was the best era to live and love. An independent woman before it was common or attractive driven by intellect while following what is right. Miscalculations and assumptions could avoid disappointment or heartache but often less us to our destiny.
The night Kate and Eve meet up in a dingy jazz bar in lower Manhattan to swing in the New Year of 1937, they meet a handsome Manhattanite from the Upper West Side. Genteel and well-to-do, Theodore Grey (Tinker) shows them what it's like to live on the other side of the tracks, and in turn, they show him the working-class side of the city. But in the style of the noir, nothing is exactly as it seems. Beneath the veneer of high society, Kate finds ...read more
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