BOSTON: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on title page. Author's first novel - extremely well-written. Went quickly into later printings. Cover praise from Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, and Eudora Welty (who said "Reading [this] has given me enormous pleasure. Along the way would crop up sentences, sometimes merely a word, that would make me catch my breath") 275 pp. ISBN: 0-395-54417-3.