Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first book, a collection of 14 interrelated short stories, spanning a period of fourteen years with settings ranging from Nicaragua,to a ranch in Arizona and a ski slope in Vermont. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction. A review by the NY Times called his prose "stark, imagistic .. part Hemingway, part Wallace Stevens." 163 pp. ISBN: 0-820313785.