Rules of Civility: A Novel
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670022694 (0670022691)
ASIN: 0670022691
Publish date: 2011-07-26
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
—Oh stop, Eve said. It’s dreadful. What is it? —Virginia Woolf. —Ugh. Tinker brought home all these novels by women as if that’s what I needed to get me back on my feet. He’s surrounded my bed with them. It’s as if he’s planning to brick me in. Isn’t there anything else? Rules of Civility left m...
An enjoyable and engrossing romp through 1930's New York City, with a guide I'd love to have as a friend. Katey Kontent (pronounced KonTENT), of Russian descent and literary bent, is smart, independent, and funny. I wish I had time to go back through and copy out some quotes...there were so many goo...
I honestly didn't expect the book to be so good. Well, coming after Water for Elephants, any book would be, but oh my, this guy can write. Not only is the plot excellent, but Amor Towles has style, some sort of personal touch I'm very much in like with. And he can shape characters!I liked Tinker and...
”She was indisputably a natural blonde. Her shoulder-length hair, which was sandy in summer, turned golden in the fall as if in sympathy with the wheat fields back home. She had fine features and blue eyes and pinpoint dimples so perfectly defined that it seemed like there must be a small steel cabl...
Very quickly while reading this book I determined that I did not like the author's style of writing. Descriptions and even formatting felt clunky and irritating. The characters are rather unlikable for me, I for some reason cannot get behind someone who wastes what is left of their money on drinking...
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