Flappers & Fiction

Clarence Lespinasse possesses the profile of a Greek statue and the soul of a true poet, yet he spends his days tallying ledgers in a Wall Street banking house. While the snobbish literary circles of old New York—presided over by critics like the envious Mr. Flaye—ignore his genius, Lespinasse labors in silence. But when a crushing tragedy transforms his verse from mere beauty to aching human truth, he faces a final, terrible choice between the immortality of his work and the integrity of his own heart.