This beautiful softcover edition is in fine condition, with no marks or tears and only minimal shelf wear. The pages are tight, unmarked, and the book is tight, square, and unmarked. The novel opens on New Year’s Eve in 1938, when Katey Kontent, along with her friend Eve, encounters a charming banker named Tinker Grey. This meeting sets off a sequence of events that shape Katey’s future, as she navigates love, and the complexities of class and identity in New York's upper echelons. Rules of Civility became a bestseller and established Amor Towles as a respected author. Readers often compare it to works by F. Scott Fitzgerald.