New York: Pantheon, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's very funny first novel, the story of a balding, thickening 28 year-old without a job and without prospects, living in a shack in his sister's backyard and spending his evenings at the publ. But he has a plan B - if the money won't come to him, he will go it - a bank heist. . . ISBN: 0-679-442251.