At Johnny Chipman’s parties at the Harlequin Club, young Harvard playwrights, Boston exquisites and aspiring writers mingle in the New York of the early 1920s. Benét follows a group of postwar young people as they try to reconcile love, pride, money and the work they want to do, while their elders look on with cigars and advice.
An early novel by the poet of John Brown’s Body, catching the Jazz Age young in the act of growing up. Download the free EPUB.