Peter Grayson, a bald, twinkling, perfectly courteous clerk in an old New York bank, has spent decades over his ledgers and knows the city’s old families inside out. When young Jack Breen is drawn toward the fast money of Wall Street speculation, Peter quietly takes him in hand, and a circle of friends, lovers and financiers is changed by his gentle counsel.
A genial, old-fashioned novel of manners in turn-of-the-century New York, built around one of fiction’s kindliest bachelors. Download the free EPUB.