New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1986.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Prize-winning author's first book, a collection of 25 short humorous pieces, written between 1975 and 1985, and arranged chronologically - some of them are parodies (Samuel Beckett as the pilot of an airplane), some wildly inventive (on the real cause of the New York City blackout) - most appeared originally in the New Yorker magazine. 123 pp plus lots of blank pages for "your notes" (still blank, in this copy.). ISBN: 0-374135088.