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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368 pages

Average rating: 7.51

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SharlC
Feb 05, 2024
7/10 stars
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.
Anonymous
Dec 28, 2023
6/10 stars
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
Steve Crandall
Nov 11, 2023
10/10 stars
wow! But I’m a Towles fan.
Christine V
Nov 09, 2022
2012-Barb
Holly Steele
Apr 27, 2022
Selected by LisaM. 11/12/2018

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