Rules of Civility
New York : Penguin Books, 2012.
Format: Book
Description: 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
Subjects:
Young women -- Fiction.
Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Upper class -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Nineteen thirties -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143121169
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"A novel"--Cover.