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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a Greenwich Village jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults witty 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. A...
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10h 34m
slow reader
180 WPM
7h 37m
average reader
250 WPM
5h 26m
fast reader
350 WPM
📖 114,125 words📅 16 days at 30 min/day
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7 h 37 min
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Audiobook (1.5x)
8 h 27 min
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12 h 41 min
Audio 2x
6 h 20 min
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