Rules of Civility: novel
โ Scribed by Towles, Amor
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2011;2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 340 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101517069
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โฆ Synopsis
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.
โฆ Subjects
A Novel
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