Six months later, she appears in a photograph in a gossip magazine exiting the Tropicana Club in Los Angeles on the arm of Olivia de Havilland.
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. Even as she waits for circumstances to bring Tinker back into her life, she begins to realize how our most promising choices inevitably lay the groundwork for our regrets.
Wooed in turn by a shy, principled multi-millionaire and an irrepressible Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, befriended by a single-minded widow who is ahead of her time, and challenged by an imperious mentor, Katey experiences firsthand the poise secured by wealth and station and the failed aspirations that reside just below the surface. This chance encounter and its startling consequences propel Katey on a yearlong journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool toward the upper echelons of New York society and the executive suites of Condé Nast-rarefied environs where she will have little to rely upon other than a bracing wit and her own brand of cool nerve. riley.On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village jazz bar with her boardinghouse roommate stretching three dollars as far as it will go when Tinker Grey, a handsome banker with royal blue eyes and a tempered smile, happens to sit at the neighboring table. Penny01 (2 works), Nightcolors (2), jules0623 (2), macyj (2), Library_addict (2), cmallory (2), amaranthe (2), gsc55 (2), EmScape (2), elisa.rolle (2), GordonPowell (2), sharrow (2), Connorz (1), Martinek (1), Mrella (1), ShazOV (1), Bookbee1 (1), Colette_Miranda (1), oldenoughdk (1), lulumiami (1), CrystalDawn1217 (1), SheReadsALot (1), Lynette_Michelle (1), dwcobb (1), Fiordiligii (1), Bitchie (1). (mm) (4) 2008 (2) 2011 (2) Calibre import (2) contains-hurt-comfort (1) contemporary (7) contemporary romance (2) crime thriller (2) detective-police (1) done (2) ebook (18) fiction (4) g-mystery-suspence (1) gay (7) gay-detective-cop (1) gender and sexuality - gay characters (2) genre-mystery (2) glbt (2) glbt fiction (2) gsckindle (2) hollywood-expose (1) how-ebook (3) law enforcement (2) Loose Id (3) Los Angeles (2) m/m (15) m/m romance (7) mm-gay (2) mystery (13) mystery/suspense/crime (2) own (2) owned (3) p-celebrity (1) p-law-enforcement-pi (1) queer interest (2) r-favourites (1) relationship-m-m (2) rich-boy (1) romance (10) romantic suspense (2) suspense (2) to-read (14) want-but-oop (1) what-glbtq (3) what-m-m-to-read (3) what-male-protagonist (3) what-thank-you-officer (3) when-soon-m-m (3) where-can-borrow (3) yes (3) Top Members
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