Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel by a writer known for his explorations of questions of ethics and morality in his books - the entire action takes place in just one day at the home of a US Senator. " It all sounds like a gracious and well-ordered affair, but as events unfold, the reader is battered from all sides by one startling revelation after another." 250 pp.