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.
Dimensions:23 x 197
Author: Amor Towles
ISBN: 9781444708875
Format: Paperback
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