readerjim 's review for:

Rules of Civility by Amor Towles

5.0

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I know I'm late to this one, perhaps it was the cover that dissuaded me from reading? At any rate, this marvel of a novel is my new favorite. Young Katey, an independent, wry thinker, careens through the New York City of 1938, careening and carousing the way only young people do. One night, she and her friend Even meet a dashing stranger named Tinker, thus setting the story into motion. It's all jazz, nightcaps of NYC lit up, flowing booze, and uncanny observations. Towles is a master writer, never falling into convention or pretention, but always swift and evocative. You'd know that from the passages I highlighted. Now, on to "The Gentleman from Moscow", and his new one, "The Lincoln Highway".