(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, marred only by some soiling/spotting to top page edges; jacket moderately worn, a couple of tiny edge tears, soiling/scuffing to rear panel]. "A novel about literary lions, money and love; a witty novel about New York's chic publishing world, the people in it, and the impact of a naive colelge girl upon them. Claire Franklin, an attractive literary agent, suddenly finds herself both employer and substitute mother of Amy Larkin, an intense Bennington freshman who is spending her work period in New York." First novel by a long-time writer for radio, theatre, TV, and movies; hard to resist the assumption that some of the book's characters (including "a too-successful novelist, a wheeling-dealing editor, an underground film-maker, and an author who's a best seller in spite of himself") might have their origins in real folks.