New York: Harper Collins, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's third novel, whitch one reviewer called "A quiet masterwork of late 20th-century American realism." A woman has settled into her marriage and her family, which includes four children, and her career as a pianist in a chamber music quartet, until one day when her harmonious life is shattered by two policemen knocking on her door. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-060152028.