PublishedSceptre, March 2012 |
ISBN9781444708875 |
FormatSoftcover, 368 pages |
Dimensions19.7cm × 12.9cm × 2.3cm |
In a jazz bar on the last night of 1937, watching a quartet because she couldn't afford to see the whole ensemble, there were certain things Katey Kontent knew:
The location of every old church in Manhattan
How to sneak into the cinema
How to type eighty words a minute, five thousand an hour, and nine million a year
and that if you can still lose yourself in the first chapter of a Dickens novel then everything is probably going to be fine.
By the end of the year she'd learned:
How to launch a paper airplane high over Park Avenue
How to live like a redhead
How to insist upon the very best
That the word 'yes' can be a poison
and the Rules of Civility.
That's how quickly New York City comes about - like a weathervane - or the head of a cobra. Time tells which.
