I loved the atmosphere of this novel, balanced on the line between the lives of the outrageously rich and the working poor in 1930s Manhattan. What I expected to be a riches-to-rags story turned out to be much more than the story of one man's downfall, full of richly drawn characters and thought-pr...
In the mid 1960’s, at a photography show, Katey Kontent tells her husband, Val, that she recognizes one of the subjects in two pictures. He is shown in two versions of himself, one as a rich man and another as a poor one. His upper crust photo is not the latest one, as her husband thought. Katey’s m...
Katey Kontent (pronounced like the state of being, not like the table of, thank you very much) is a 20-something in 1938 New York City. And there’s something about Towles’s description of that year and city that makes me think he may have been there in a former life. There’s also something about Tow...
This is just delightful fun. It's a love letter, a limerick, a lollipop, a literary longing. Grab your shaker of martinis and your cocktail onions and take a ride with Katey Kontent through the streets of 1938 Manhattan. She's just a working girl trying to make it on her own, but with the right (or ...
Rules of Civility is an elegant and quirky novel by first time novelist Amor Towles.Set in 1930s New York, Katey Kontent(very witty name to give a character) daughter of Russian immigrants and Evie Ross from the sleepy Midwest are ambitious, wisecracking pair who despite lack of money and connection...
Blargh, I'd been having such good luck with Goodreads Choice finalists.I really should have put it down after page two, when the female, working-class narrator describes her roommate as follows:"Eve was one of those surprising beauties from the American Midwest.In New York it becomes so easy to assu...
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