A highball comedy of manners, this novel is a return to the days of too much gin and too many cigarettes. Hapless reporter Roosevelt P. Lane lives in the grandeur and glamour of New York circa 1953--an era of quiz-panel programs, debutantes and dinner jackets, communists, pickpockets, and artists manque--where he finds the city to be incredibly huge until he attempts to date two women at once. Now...