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Name: Rules of Civility

Full title: Rules of Civility: A Novel
Author: Amor Towles
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Genres/categories: Historical fiction, Award winners

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ISBN:
9780143121169
0143121162
Winner of the NAIBA Book of the Year award for Fiction in 2012.

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. Reprint.
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