![]() Amor Towles has a way with words, framing his events beautifully and managing to lace even the most benign actions with emotional undercurrents. Rules of Civility tells an engrossing, fast-paced tale, punctuated with joy, hurt and pathos. All that changes however with one tragic swoop of fate. ![]() While both the girls are attracted to Tinker he seems to be drawn towards Katey. Nursing their drinks in a cheap bar, they meet affluent looking banker Theodore Grey (or Tinker). And Katey and Eve start the evening with “a plan of stretching three dollars as far as it would go”. Martingale’s door and shed the unsalted tears of the Great Lakes. On Friday nights, we let boys that we had no intention of kissing buy us drinks, and in exchange for dinner we kissed a few that we had no intention of kissing twice.And when we were late with the rent, she (Eve) did her part: She stood at Mrs. We shared our clothes with the girls on the floor. ![]() ![]() We ate every scrap at the boardinghouse breakfast and starved ourselves at lunch. Both, relatively impoverished, are living modestly : Each of the girls is very different – Katey comes from blue-collar stock and is looking to make her way up in New York City, while Eve comes from money- money she doesn’t want. They room together and have come to New York city for work – Katey is a legal typist and Eve a marketing assistant. Katey Kontent and Eve Ross are great friends. ![]()
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