New York: Norton, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir which tells of his coming of age in a drug-ridden and depressed mill town in Massachusetts where his mother struggled to support them, while his father was a professor at a nearby liberal arts college. This is book is a meditation on violence, and a description of the creative process, and a story of coming together with his father. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780393064667.