- Fiction
- English
- catalog edition 2011
Rules of Civility
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty 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. A first novel. 75,000 first printing.
335
pages
~11h
estimated · 30 pages/hour
the reading room
Keep the thread going.
One quiet exit, after the marks that matter.