Amor Towles: Rules of Civility
Rules of Civility
Buch
- Hodder And Stoughton Ltd., 01/2012
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781444708875
- Bestellnummer: 1391832
- Umfang: 345 Seiten
- Copyright-Jahr: 2012
- Gewicht: 254 g
- Maße: 198 x 128 mm
- Stärke: 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 5.1.2012
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Kurzbeschreibung
For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938.Beschreibung
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn t afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew: the location of every old church in Manhattan how to sneak into the cinema how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year and that if you can still lose yourself in the first chapter of a Dickens novel then everything is probably going to be fine. By the end of the year she'd learned: how to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue, how to live like a redhead, how to insist upon the very best that the word yes can be a poison and the Rules of Civility. That s how quickly New York City comes about like a weathervane or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.Klappentext
'Irresistible' 'Fabulous''Gripping'Daily Telegraph ObserverThe Sunday Times
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937,
watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble,
there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:
the location of every old church in Manhattan
how to sneak into the cinema
how to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year
and that if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything is going to be fine.
By the end of the year she'd learned:
how to live like a redhead
and insist upon the very best;
that riches can turn to rags in the trip of a heartbeat,
chance encounters can be fated, and the word 'yes' can be a poison.
That's how quickly New York City comes about, like a weathervane, or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
'A delicious and memorable novel that will leave you wistful - and desperate for a martini.' Stylist
