New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - "A rollicking, explosively inventive novel about God, sex, death, and politics in Bill Clinton country. It's a love story, a murder mystery, and a soap opera of the new American South. Its a metafictional tour de force, narrated by none other than the Holy Ghost, that Shade-About-Town." It's a great novel by a writer who doesn't fit into any pigeonholes - cover praise from Clyde Edgerton, Larry Brown and others. 655 pp. ISBN: 0-394586638.