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Rules of Civility: A Novel

Rules of Civility: A Novel

ISBN: 0670022691

Title: Rules of Civility: A Novel

Author: Amor Towles

KDL Description:

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.

Recommended by Meredith at Byron

Amazon Description: Unabridged, 10 CDs, 11 1/2 hours

Read by Rebecca Lowman

A sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with outsized dreams.