Mississippi Business Journal » Big Apple http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 ‘Rules of Civility’ evokes glittering and gritty Manhattan of late 1930s http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/23/rules-of-civility-evokes-glittering-and-gritty-manhattan-of-late-1930s/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rules-of-civility-evokes-glittering-and-gritty-manhattan-of-late-1930s http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/23/rules-of-civility-evokes-glittering-and-gritty-manhattan-of-late-1930s/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 06:01:32 +0000 Lynn Lofton http://msbusiness.com/?p=63016 If you like the Manhattan borough of New York City, you’ll like Amor Towles’ “Rules of Civility.” It’s not just that this novel is set in the Big Apple, but the city itself is a character. Only in New York could this story take place. The setting is 1938. Manhattanites are surviving — or not [...]

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