880-04,"Posledni�i vecher 1937 goda. K�eti Kontent vmeste so svoe�i podrugo�i Iv poseshcha�i�ut vtorosortny�i dzhaz-bar Grinvich-Villidzh, chtoby otprazdnovat� kanun Novogo goda. Poka devushki pyta�i�uts�i�a razdelit� ostavshies�i�a u nikh tri dollara, sosedni�i stolik zanimaet oba�i�atel�ny�i molodo�i bankir. Tinker Gre�i, tak ego im�i�a, ugoshchaet podrug kokte�ilem i zavodit svetski�i, ni k chemu ne ob�i�azyva�i�ushchi�i razgovor. Tak slucha�ina�i�a vstrecha privodit K�eti v vysshie krugi n��i�u-�iorkskogo obshchestva, gde e�i ne na chto budet polozhit�s�i�a, krome ee ostroumi�i�a i sobstvennogo khladnokrovi�i�a." --

A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.

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