Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth and last novel by this Kentucky-born author (who lived most of his life in New York City) to be published in his lifetime. Edmund White called this the "most penetrating novel we have ever had about black and whites in the United States. He has chosen to approach this subject through an examination of sexual obsession, thereby exposing racist hypocrisy.. . " 251 pp. ISBN: 0-881500003.