Cliff Nelson is the privileged son of a New York editor. Having dropped out of college he's slumming it around Greenwich village, enjoying the idea that he's the next Kerouac. Eden Katz arrives in NY filled with ambition to realise her dream of becoming an editor. Finally Miles Tillman, a black Columbia graduate, is an aspiring writer. Their choices, and betrayals as they reach for their goals ripple outwards leaving none of them unchanged. From the author of the bestselling "The Other Typist".