Rules of civility

Resource Information

The work Rules of civility represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester-by-the-Sea Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Rules of civility

Statement of responsibility

Amor Towles

Creator

• Towles, Amor

Subject

• Historical fiction
• Jealousy -- Fiction
• Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
• New Year -- Fiction
• New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Cliques (Sociology) -- Fiction
• Upper class -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Young women -- Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Psychological fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

This novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. A chance encounter with Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults twenty-five-year-old Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into a year-long journey in 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. Here in the executive suites of Conde Nast rareified environs, she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. She experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that lie just beow the surface. The novel offers a sparkling depiction of New York's social strata, intricate imagery and themes, a finely crafted unfoding of the unforeseen, and immensely appealing characters, the heroine in particular. -- From book jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3620.O945

LC item number

R85 2011

Literary form

fiction

NLM call number

BOOK: SGA TOW