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In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year and that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine. By the end of the year she'd learned: how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best; that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat, chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison. That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
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Rules of Civility, Amor Towles, David Nicholls
- Language
- Released
- 2011
- Binding
- (Paperback),
- Book condition
- Very Good
- Price
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- Title
- Rules of Civility
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amor Towles, David Nicholls
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 335
- ISBN10
- 1444708856
- ISBN13
- 9781444708851
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Friendship, USA, American Literature, Literary Fiction, Society, Life, New York, America, Accident, Jazz, 1930s, Manhattan, NY, Decadence
- First published
- 2011
- Original title
- Rules of Civility
- Rating
- 4.1 out of 5
- Description
- In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year and that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine. By the end of the year she'd learned: how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best; that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat, chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison. That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.