The Resource Rules of civility, Amor Towles
Rules of civility, Amor Towles
Resource Information
The item Rules of civility, Amor Towles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Rules of civility, Amor Towles represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-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."--Amazon
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 579 pages (large print)
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781410443243
- Label
- Rules of civility
- Title
- Rules of civility
- Statement of responsibility
- Amor Towles
- Subject
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- trueLiterary fiction
- Young women -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York | Wall Street
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueNew York City
- trueAmbition in women
- Upper class -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- Nineteen thirties
- Young women
- trueUpper class -- New York City
- trueWall Street, New York City
- trueYoung women -- New York City
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- Upper class
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- trueUpward mobility
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Fiction
- trueFriendship -- New York City
- trueFate and fatalism
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-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."--Amazon
- Summary
- A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow
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- 390439
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Towles, Amor
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Young women
- Upper class
- Nineteen thirties
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- Large type books
- Large type books
- Nineteen thirties
- Upper class
- Young women
- New York (State)
- New York (State)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Rules of civility, Amor Towles
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn743432795
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 579 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410443243
- Lccn
- 2011032389
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)743432795
- Label
- Rules of civility, Amor Towles
- Note
- "Thorndike Press large print reviewers' choice"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn743432795
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 579 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9781410443243
- Lccn
- 2011032389
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)743432795
Subject
- true1930s -- 1930 -- 1939
- trueAmbition in women
- trueFate and fatalism
- Fiction
- trueFriendship -- New York City
- trueHistorical fiction
- Large type books
- Large type books
- trueLiterary fiction
- New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
- New York (State) -- New York
- New York (State) -- New York | Wall Street
- trueNew York City
- Nineteen thirties
- Nineteen thirties -- Fiction
- Upper class
- Upper class -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
- trueUpper class -- New York City
- trueUpward mobility
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
- trueWall Street, New York City
- Young women
- Young women -- Fiction
- trueYoung women -- New York City
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Central LibraryBorrow it710 W. Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX, 78701, US30.271302100000 -97.746016800000
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