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Rules of civility : [a novel] / Amor Towles.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780670022694 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0670022691 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 9780143121169 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, c2011.
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| General Note: | Subtitle from cover. Some copies may include excerpt from additional work on separately numbered pages at back of book. |
| Summary, etc.: | 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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| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Main | Fiction Towles (Text) | 31307022835815 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Main | Fiction Towles (Text) | 31307023500574 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/24/2025 |
| Main | Fiction Towles (Text) | 31307024137103 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Ottawa Hills | Fiction Towles (Text) | 31307026373706 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Ottawa Hills | Fiction Towles (Text) | 31307023587712 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/26/2025 |
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Rules of Civility : A Novel
Amor Towles grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College and received an M.A. in English from Stanford University where he was a Scowcroft Fellow. His novel, "Rules of Civility" reached the bestseller lists of The New York Times, the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times. The book was rated by The Wall Street Journal as one of the ten best works of fiction in 2011. The book has been published in 15 languages. In the fall of 2012, the novel was optioned to be made into a feature film. Viking/Penguin published Towles's next novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, on September 6, 2016. (Bowker Author Biography)
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