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Set in New York City in 1938, tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising 25-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool throu...

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Main Author: Towles, Amor
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, 2011.
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Young women > Fiction.
Upper class > Fiction.
Nineteen thirties > Fiction.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction > New York.
Love stories > New York.
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Summary:Set in New York City in 1938, tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising 25-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future.
Physical Description:334 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN:9780670022694
0670022691
9780143121169
Author Notes: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.

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