Back Street Author:Fannie Hurst BACK STREET deals with a Kitty Foley of Cincinnati toward the turn of the century. It tells the story of a woman's complete and life-long devotion to a man outside of marriage. Ray Schmidt's love for Walter Sexel is renewed after a chance meeting six years after his marriage to another woman. A capable businesswoman herself, she thereafter gives... more » up her work and any attempt at self-sufficiency, so that she can always be on call when Walter needs her: accepts the meager apartment in a back street which he provides and a place on the back street of his life.« less