A Black Adonis

Shirley Roseleaf waits by a foggy window, certain the letter from Cutt & Slashem will make him famous. It brings a rejection—and sends him straight to confront the publishers, who are busy haggling over paper.

In the bustling city of publishing houses and rented rooms, the young author has staked his hopes on a romance he has polished with care. The refusal leaves him stung but fiercely certain of his talent; at Cutt & Slashem’s office, he discovers the partners have scarcely given his manuscript a thought. They have entrusted such decisions to a paid reader, while they attend to what they consider the firm’s essential business. Roseleaf’s indignation is only growing as he seeks the man who judged his book. Can he make anyone at the firm take his writing seriously?

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