Trailer: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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more on the book here: www.hodder.co.uk/books/work.as...
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.
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This novel is absolutely brilliant writing.
I love the novel Rules of Civility. From Colombia.
@AlvaroJuliao
4 жыл бұрын
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4 жыл бұрын
@@AlvaroJuliao I am reading this book too. Great book.
Beautifully written and clear, but hard to love the protagonist. The city and the side characters carry this work, nearly as in "The Lincoln Highway".