“Put on some Billie Holiday, pour a dry martini and immerse yourself in the eventful life of Katey Kontent… clearly knows the privileged world he’s writing about, as well as the vivid, sometimes reckless characters who inhabit it.” –“Inside the List,” The New York Times Book Review It’s also…a loving evocation of the chance social alchemy of Village jazz joints, Wall Street coffee shops, Midtown Champagne palaces, and Lower East Side former speakeasies.” “A fizzy, finely observed tale of an ambitious young secretary from Brooklyn who falls in with a crowd of upper-class bright young things in late 1930s Manhattan. “With this snappy period piece, Towles resurrects the cinematic black-and-white Manhattan of the golden age of screwball comedy, gal-pal camaraderie and romantic mischief…Towles characters are youthful Americans in tricky times, trying to create authentic lives.” Who needs such burdensome comparisons? On the evidence of “Rules of Civility,” being Amor Towles should be plenty good enough.” Towles’s novel have rarely failed to bring up F. “This very good first novel about striving and surviving in Depression-era Manhattan deserves attention…The great strength of Rules of Civility is in the sharp, sure-handed…evocation of Manhattan in the late ‘30s… Advance reviews of Mr.
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