Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a story of a lonely old man, left widowed at 75 - and an apparition that changed his life. Lee Smith described this as 'a quiet miracle, true testimony to the abiding power of love... lyrical language and startling originality.' Winner of the Barnes & Noble Discover Great Writers award. ISBN: 1-56512-1740.