- Fiction, Nineteen thirties, Man-woman relationships, Upper class
A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults 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.
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Classical in form, warm, cool and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Amor Towles
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- List, Hodder & Stoughton, Ullstein Taschenbuchvlg.
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- Spanish, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9783548288222
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Born and raised in the Boston area, Amor Towles graduated from Yale College and received an MA in English from Stanford University. His thesis at Stanford, a short story cycle called “The Temptations of Pleasure”, was published in 1989 in Paris Review 112. Mr. Towles’s first novel, Rules of Civility, which was published in 2011, was a New York Times bestseller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. The book has been translated into over 15 languages, its French translation receiving the 2012 Prix Fitzgerald. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned by Lionsgate to be made into a feature film. Mr. Towles’s second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which was p
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