Cliff Nelson is the privileged son of an editor at a New York publishing house.
Their choices, concealments and betrayals as they reach for their goals ripple outwards leaving none of them unchanged..
Finally Miles Tillman, a black soon-to-be Columbia graduate and publishing house bike messenger, is an aspiring writer who feels he straddles various worlds and belongs to none.
She has to develop a thicker skin and adopt an imposture of her own in order to succeed.
Eden Katz arrives in New York fresh-faced and filled with ambition to realise her dream of becoming an editor.
Having dropped out of college he\'s slumming it around Greenwich village, enjoying the nightlife, booze, drugs and the idea that he\'s the next Kerouac.
Cliff Nelson is the privileged son of an editor at a New York publishing house
