Personally signed by the author directly to the full title page. Towles with some of the great themes of love and class, luck and fated encounters that animated Wharton's novels." - Chicago Tribune. "With this snappy period piece, Towles resurrects the cinematic black-and-white Manhattan of the golden age." - The New York Times Book Review. "In the crisp, noirish prose of the era, Towles portrays complex relationships in a city that is at once melting pot and elitist enclave - and a thoroughly modern heroine who fearlessly claims her place in it." - O, The Oprah magazine. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel her on a yearlong journey toward the upper echelons of New York society - where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve." - from the rear outer cover. "On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker, happens to sit at the neighboring table. Includes Praise for Rules of Civility About the Author Author Dedication Preliminary Page Quote from Matthew 22:8-14 Preface Epilogue: Few Are Chosen Appendix: The Young George Washington's Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation and Acknowledgments. Fine unread condition photographic softcover wraps.
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