TY  - BOOK
AU  - Towels, Amor
TI  - Rules of civility
SN  - 9781444708875
U1  - Fiction TOW-A 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - Hodder & Stoughton Ltd.
KW  - Fiction
KW  - New York (State)--New York
KW  - Young women
KW  - Upper class
KW  - Nineteen thirties
KW  - New York (State)--New York--Wall Street
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Manners and customs
N1  - 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 rarefied environs, she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her brand of cool nerve. She experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations below the surface. The novel offers a sparkling depiction of New York's social strata, intricate imagery and themes, a finely crafted unfolding of the unforeseen, and immensely appealing characters, particularly the heroine.
ER  -