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Rules of civility / Amor Towles.
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670022694 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0670022691 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "A novel"--Jacket. |
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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 1 current hold with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Towle | 31681002892990 | FICTION | Available | - |
Amor Towles is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway. The three novels have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
Amor Towles was born and raised just outside Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale University and received an MA in English from Stanford University, where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. After working more than twenty years as an investment professional, Towles now writes full time. He is also the author of the novella Eve in Hollywood, available as an e-book. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
