![]() ![]() And as she keeps befriending the prejet jet-set she mysteriously lucks into a job at Gotham, a new Condo Nest publication likely modeled on The New Yorker. In an Irish dive she meets Henry Grey, a painter and Tinker's estranged brother. ![]() At an Oyster Bay party she coincidentally bumps into Wallace Wolcott, Tinker's best friend and a potential flame. Meanwhile Katey enters a world in which everyone seems to know Tinker. ![]() Or has it? Like the origins of his wealth, Tinker is secretive about the contents of his heart and much of the novel is spent anticipating the love triangle's conclusion. Katey seems to win but a car accident indebts Tinker to Eve, and during her convalescence a romance blooms. ![]() Narrated by the 25-year-old Katey, the story opens in a Greenwich Village jazz bar as she and Eve, her Midwestern boarding house roommate, compete over the eligible Tinker Grey. Ten pages later this acquaintance is revealed to be Katey's secret benefactor, and she's perhaps most responsible for making this new Jazz Age novel owe just as much to Dickens as Fitzgerald.Ĭan a literary novel have twists? Towles thinks so. Late in Rules of Civility, Amor Towles' accomplished debut, Katey Kontent defends Great Expectations against an acquaintance who prefers Virginia Woolf. ![]()
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