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| Title | : | Rules of Civility |
| Author | : | Amor Towles |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | July 26th 2011 by Viking Adult |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. New York. Book Club. Literary Fiction. Audiobook |
Amor Towles
Hardcover | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.04 | 137269 Users | 14191 Reviews
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On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast—rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. Wooed in turn by a shy, principled multi-millionaire, and an irrepressible Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, befriended by a single-minded widow who is ahead of her time, and challenged by an imperious mentor, Katey experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that reside just below the surface. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize how our most promising choices inevitably lay the groundwork for our regrets.
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| Original Title: | Rules of Civility |
| ISBN: | 0670022691 (ISBN13: 9780670022694) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.amortowles.com/rules-civility-amor-towles/ |
| Characters: | Katey Kontent, Tinker Grey, Evelyn Ross |
| Setting: | New York City, New York,1938(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | NAIBA Book of the Year for Fiction (2012), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2011) |
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"I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss." Amor Towles, Rules of Civility Have you ever been immersed in something so enchanting that you have no idea how special it is until its over? This is the feeling Im left with after reading Rules of Civility. Amor Towles dreamy lyrical prose is so beautiful that I was transported back in time to a glamorous life of martinis and manners. I could taste the bathtub gin on my tongue as the sultry jazz twirledTwo roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.The road not taken by Robert Frost.Katey Kontent stands on her balcony overlooking Central Park in 1966 and reflects on the journey of her life and the road she chose to walk more than twenty years ago. Vulnerable and voluptuous like Billie Holidays voice in Autumn in New York, Katey remembers the one and only genuine love of her life, the irresistible banker Tinker Grey. For many are called,
Year after year, this book always speaks to where I am in life.
If a novel could win an award for best cinematography, this would take home the gold. Amor Towles's sophisticated retro-era novel of manners captures Manhattan 1938 with immaculate lucidity and a silvery focus on the gin and the jazz, the nightclubs and the streets, the pursuit of sensuality, and the arc of the self-made woman.The novel's preface opens in 1966, with a happily married couple attending a Walker Evans photography exhibition. An unlikely chance encounter stuns the woman, Katey--a
I don't want to say a lot about this book. I'm a bit tired this morning. Wanted to finish this book and denied myself a few hours of sleep.This is the story of Kate, Eve and Tinker in the New York of 1938, where it was possible to climb the social ladder with a few rules from the father of the American republic's, George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior; a few well-positioned social connections; and and a whiff of intelligence. Everybody had a chance if you knew the rules. In
I waffled between a one or two star rating, but I'm not feeling particularly generous today, so one star it is.Basically: upper-class middle-aged man tries to write as/about working-class young woman. And fails. I think I enjoyed about the first twenty pages of this one, and the rest just fell utterly flat. First of all, the main character (with the terrible name of Katey Kontent) was completely unconvincing and not at all compelling. It's rare that men can write convincingly in a female voice,
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