![]() ![]() ![]() Turning their backs on all the hard-wrought perfections of the hour, they were searching for the sweet uncertainties of a bygone year and for all its chance encounters – encounters which in the moment had seemed so haphazard and effervescent but which with time took on some semblance of fate. Meanwhile Eve uses her drive and wits to carve out a very different path in life.Īnd yet, I found my thoughts reaching into the past. Katey’s wit and charm raise her from one among many in a secretarial pool to a high-profile assistant at Gotham, a precursor to Vanity Fair. The novel follows Katey, Eve, Tinker and her friends through 1938, just before the sharp lines between social stratifications were blurred by the leveling influences of World War II, as their circumstances shift and change. Tinker is enigmatic, adorable and lives his life according to George Washington’s Rules of Civility, but is he all he says he is? There they meet the handsome, wealthy Tinker Gray, who charms them both, but connects in particular with Katey. On New Year’s Eve in 1937, Katey and her vivacious friend Eve scrape together their meagre dollars and head for a Village jazz club to see in 1938. ![]() Walker Evans, from Subway Portraits 1938 – 41 ![]()
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