New York: Crowell, (1975) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His fourth novel, a story about the adjustment (or not) to civilian life of a Vietnam POW - "After five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, Eddie Keller returns to an unfamiliar America, where he struggles to survive a shattered marriage, unemployment, and growing anger and desperation." SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. Basis for the 1982 film directed by Michael Pressman and starring Richard Pryor, Margot Kidder and Ray Sharkey. The year after this book was published, Kirkwood won the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize for the Broadway hit "A Chorus Line." 399 pp. ISBN: 0-690007574.