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Zusatztext Impossibly glamorous! RULES OF CIVILITY takes in 1930s New York with a dry martini and a side order of sharp-tongued wit. with vintage period detail verging on the nostalgic! it's a stylish tale of ambitious! wisecracking gals on the make in Manhattan...With love at its heart (love lost! regained! betrayed and shared)! this book is so much more than the sum of its parts as it takes in ambition! manner and the American Dream along the way. Where it excels is not letting the style become its only substance...Rules of Civility has the feel of a classic! one that's as rich in story as in nostalgia and love for New York...With crackling prose! a compelling story and a beautiful way with words! this clever and sassy book is not only dull of charm! it's shockingly good fun too. Informationen zum Autor Amor Towles is the author of New York Times bestsellers Rules of Civility , A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway . The three novels have collectively sold more than six million copies and have been translated into more than thirty languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with his wife and two children. Klappentext 'Irresistible' 'Fabulous''Gripping' Daily Telegraph Observer The 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 Vorwort For fans of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's , this a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. Zusammenfassung The unforgettable debut by the bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and The Lincoln Highway...
