New York: Poseidon Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - the story of Lottie Jay, another kind of all-American girl - tough, wise-cracking, a small city boozer for whom life is going wrong. Dj praise from Anne Tyler, Barry Hannah and Richard Yates - who said 'it is hard to imagine that there can be very many new writers as good as Maureen McCoy...she knows how to make her material funny and sad at the same time.'. ISBN: 0-671-554239.