Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1988. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel. set in Texas, about the conflicts caused by being a Baptist preacher's only son in a small town, but also about the love between a father and son, a love which persists despite disappointment, growing independence and frustrated expectations. SIGNED on the front endpaper. Cover praise by Clyde Edgerton and Herbert Gold. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-912697776.