RaveThe San Francisco ChronicleEven the most jaded New Yorker can see the beauty in Amor Towles' Rules of Civility, the antiqued portrait of an unlikely jet set making the most of Manhattan … As fortunes, friendships and reputations burn out and rise from their ash, these New Yorkers reveal their various degrees of moral compromise, and as they change, so too do their perspectives on each other. We come to appreciate anew that ‘when some incident sheds a favorable light on an old and absent friend, that's about as good a gift as chance intends to offer.’
