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Rules of Civility

Amor Towles
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Viking Adult • 2011

This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a ...second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.
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Katey a Eve sú nerozlučné kamarátky, ktoré sa snažia prežiť vo veľkomeste s malou sumou peňazí. Zhodou náhod narazia na bohatého bankára Tinkera, ktorý im ukáže úplne nový svet obalený v bohatstve. Pre dievčatá sú to magické chvíle. Ich výlety do „lepšej“ spoločnosti im zatemnia rozum, a tak sa z kamarátok stávajú rivalky. Ktorej sa podarí získať si jeho srdce a žiť v prepychu? Vtedy sa[...]

This sophisticated and entertaining first novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit down at the neighboring table. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a year-long journey into the upper echelons of New York society—where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. With its sparkling depiction of New York’s social strata, its intricate imagery and themes, and its immensely appealing characters, Rules of Civility won the hearts of readers and critics alike.