New York: Norton, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel. At 21 Ward Sullivan seemed to have it all, as a star player on the Boston Red Sox farm team - then tragedy intervened and he found himself just another ex-jock. Twelve years later, he is just beginning to learn how to come to terms with this. INSCRIBED on the title page to Larry Owens, the noted Oklahoma book collector. 416 pp. ISBN: 0-393015254.