Name: Rules of Civility
SKU: 4976805
Price: 34.85 NZD
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Author: Amor Towles
ISBN: 9781444708875

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Physical Book

Author

Amor Towles

Publisher

Hodder And Stoughton Ltd.

Synopsis "Rules of Civility "

'Fabulous' Observer 'Achingly stylish' Guardian 'Irresistible' Daily Telegraph 'Gripping' The Sunday Times In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year and that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine. By the end of the year she'd learned: how to live like a redhead and insist upon the very best; that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat, chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison. That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which. 'A delicious and memorable novel that will leave you wistful - and desperate for a martini.' Stylist 'Elegance and hardship drip off the page' Daily Mail

Amor Towles

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Amor Towles (Boston, 1964) graduated from Yale University and completed postgraduate studies in English Literature at Stanford. He is the author of the novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was successfully adapted into a TV series, and The Lincoln Highway, and the short story collection Dinner for Two, four works published in Spanish by Salamandra which have sold over six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. After working in finance for over twenty years, Towles now writes full-time in Manhattan, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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