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O, Sweet Summer Bildungsroman

Even the most jaded New Yorker can see the beauty in Amor Towles’ Rules of Civility (Viking; 335 pages; $26.95), the antiqued portrait of an unlikely jet set making the most of Manhattan. It is New Year’s 1937, and we meet protagonist Katey Kontent (“kon-tent, like the state of being”) in an underground jazz dive. [...]

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