New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987.). First edition - Percy's last novel, a satiric look at our culture, which is at once very funny and very serious: when Dr. Thomas More returns to his psychiatric practice in his small Louisiana parish, he notices bizarre changes in both his patients and his wife - changes brought about by a well-meaning attempt to regulate behavior by drugging the drinking water. With a planned first printing of 75,000 copies, this advance issue is much more uncommon than the trade edition. 388 pp.