Near the end of Amor Towles's bestselling novel RULES OF CIVILITY, the fiercely independent Evelyn Ross boards a train from New York to Chicago to visit her parents, but never disembarks. Six months later, she appears in a photograph in a gossip...
'A comic masterpiece.' - The Times
'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' - New York Times Book Review
'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' - Sunday Times
'Everything a novel should be: charming,...
This “wonderful” (Chicago Tribune) and “sharply stylish” (Boston Globe) debut novel presents the story of a young woman whose life is on the brink of transformation. On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a...