The rules of politeness in Amor Towels are an unforgettable debut of millions of copies by the author of the bestseller Gentleman in Moscow and Lincoln Road

In a New York jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching the foursome because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katie Content knew:

* how to sneak into a movie theater and steal silk stockings from bendels

* as a type of eighty words per minute, five thousand per hour, up to nine million per year

* what if you can still lose yourself in a Dickens novel then everything will be fine

by the end of the year, she had already found out:

* how to live like a redhead and insist on a very profitable

* that random encounters can be fated, and the word "yes" can be poison

* that wealth can turn into rags in a heartbeat trip . . .