New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's massive first novel (following two collections of short stories), a work many years in the writing. "Wiley Silenowicz is the hero, the narrator, and the controlling intelligence of Harold Brodkey's prodigious and enthralling novel. Adopted as a child in the early 1930s, Wiley is raised in the St Louis household of his cousins." 835 pp. ISBN: 0-374-252866.