Rules of Civility: The stunning debut by the million-copy bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow

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. —- ISBN: 9781444708875 | ISBN10: 1444708872 | ISBN-13: 978-1444708875