Rules of Civility
2011
by Amor Towles
In 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.
Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come.
Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur of the moment decisions define life for decades to come.
Reviews
Beautifully written, craftily told, with an amazingly created woman narrator/character in the 30s... but I just don't think I liked the whole point of the story, or what I thought was the point of the story... She was the brave one, the unique one, but by the time the book ends (half a spoiler) there seems to be regret in her life. Maybe he was the brave one, the author seems to say. That may be my take only, but it left me with a bitter view of the whole thing. Still worth reading it to get to know Kate.
Likeless so far. Lead the way
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