New York: Crown, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's satirical, chaotic and very funny 5th novel. From the dj flap: "staggering across the polluted swamp of what was once Longfellow's forest primeval comes the happy, singing all-American Slivenowica family ...Evangeline Slivenowica and her five children--from five different fathers--live together in a tiny trailer by the slightly impure waters of Lake Gitchee Gumee. At nineteen, Maud, the novel's heroine, is obsessed with sex, power, money, and how to get every single thing she wants.' Review copy with slip laid in. ISBN: 0-517-702983.