Book Review Rules Of Civility
The beauty of the book is in it s telling.
Book review rules of civility. Thank you amor towles for writing such a lovely and sophisticated novel. Your book was a soothing tonic for this bruised and battered reader. Rules of civility by amor towles review amor towles s tale of cocktails silk stockings and retro chic is redolent of all the best new york films and novels viv groskop.
The novel opens at an art gallery in 1966 and then flashes back to 1937 after katey sees a photo of her former lover tinker grey. Rules of civility is the story of katey kontent in new york city. In towles s first novel rules of civility his clever heroine who grew up in brooklyn as katya restyles herself in 1930s manhattan as the more clubbable katey aspiring to.