Little Rock, Arkansas: August Rock, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Southern author's first book, a story of desegregation in the south, told from the viewpoint of those white southerners who rallied for integration only to be shunned by other whites, distrusted by blacks, and in the end to find themselves compromising their ideals. DJ praise from Fred Chappell, Jack Butler and Mark Childress. Winner of the Porter Fund Award for Literary Excellence. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-87483-0567.