Peter Quick Banta, sand-sculptor of Coney Island and pavement artist in winter, is one of the regulars of Our Square, a run-down corner of New York. Around him gather a little red doctor, a slangy shopgirl named Mayme, a lonely old sexton and other neighbours, whose small comedies and crises fill these linked stories.
Warm, O. Henry-ish city tales from the muckraking journalist behind It Happened One Night. Download the free EPUB.