A new twist to Dawn Powell's facile pen, in a story of modern New York, of sophisticates of the publishing and writing world, of Broadway. Against this vivid, swift-moving stream is worked out a story of interlocking triangles, to some extent created through the inevitability of authors making copy of their friends' lives and passions. The method approaches the stream of consciousness handling. Essentially a city book -- or one which readers away from the cities, who want to capture the city pace, will find good reading.