Rules of Civility
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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.
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Rules of Civility is a 1-book series first released in 2011 with contributions by Amor Towles.
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This was gorgeous. The writing is beautiful and the story is really well done - it's very quiet overall. I don't generally care for historical fiction because it so rarely feels right, but this felt right. I loved it.
After reading Towels' most recent book (A Gentleman in Moscow) I wanted to read Rules of Civility. His style of writing style is unmistakable and enticing. The story takes place over one year in NYC in 1938. It is recounted in 1966 by one of the main characters. The story was compelling and the characters easy to get invested in. The fact that all that happened occurred in just one year seems unrealistic but that's my only dis.
