Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning writer's 20th book, 12th novel. Both sad and funny, this is the story of an aging man, with a bad heart, asthma and more, determined to once again, on his 65th birthday, climb Spoon Mountain with his two grown children. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To -- please always remember that on the top of every mountain there is always another mountain beckoning you to climb higher" with a doodle around his signature, dated in 2013. 223 pp. ISBN: 978-0826352705.