New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and artbeers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life . .. whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. [They] spend four days together at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking to lakes and an abandoned mine. . and talking about everything they can think of" SIGNED on the title page by David Shields. ISBN: 978-0385351942.