Review of "Rules of Civility" by Amor Towles

This felt a bit of a guilty pleasure - a celebration of Depression-era New York City, with lots of outrageously wealthy people having a great time going to Jazz bars and drinking endless cocktails in swanky hotels and restaurants. There's a bit of a plot but it's not really essential to the enjoyment, and I did get a little confused between the rich people.

But it was enjoyable, even though I think it's one of Towles's books that has been resurrected after the more successful and better later ones. 

Interesting that it's told in first person narrator, though that narrator is a young working class woman of Russian Orthodox extraction. Glad that he ignored the "write from experience" advice, because it seems to me like he made a good job of it.