Penguin Books, Summer 2012 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group

The New York Times
bestselling novel that
“enchants on first reading and
only improves on the second”
(The Philadelphia Inquirer)
n A New York Times bestseller
n Hit #1 on the Boston Globe and Los Angeles Times
bestseller lists and was also a San Francisco Chronicle
and Publishers Weekly bestseller
n Foreign rights have been sold in 14 countries
n Features a step-back cover
n Visit amortowles.com—featuring background material
on the 1930s, supplemental essays, and a music playlist
n Also available as an e-book
From Rules of Civility:
That New Year’s, we started the evening with a plan of
stretching three dollars as far as it would go. We weren’t
going to bother ourselves with boys. More than a few had
had their chance with us in 1937, and we had no intention
of squandering the last hours of the year on latecomers. We
were going to perch in this low-rent bar where the music was
taken seriously enough that two good-looking girls wouldn’t
be bothered and where the gin was cheap enough that we
could each have one martini an hour. We intended to smoke a
little more than polite society allowed. And once midnight had
passed without ceremony, we were going to a Ukrainian diner
on Second Avenue where the late-night special was coffee,
eggs, and toast for fifteen cents. But a little after nine-thirty,
we drank eleven o’clock’s gin. And at ten, we drank the eggs
and toast. We had four nickels between us and we hadn’t had
a bite to eat.
It was time to start improvising . . .
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Fiction 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 352 pp. Rights: E30
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