New York: Morrow, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - California author's very highly praised first novel - an offbeat coming-of-age story set in 1972 in the South. Dust jacket praise from such diverse writers as Jay McInerney, Scott Turow and John Hawkes, who called it "so luminous with artistic certainty that it soars beyond it's author's youth." SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-688-128610.