London: Granta, (2009). SIGNED first edition - Tower's very highly praised first book, a collection of short stories. In her review, Michiko Kakutani comments that this collection "decisively establishes Mr. Tower - a magazine journalist who has also won two Pushcart Prizes - as a writer of uncommon talent, a writer with Sam Shepard's radar for the violent, surreal convolutions of American society; Frederick Barthelme's keen ear for contemporary slang; and David Foster Wallace's eye for the often hilarious absurdities of contemporary life." SIGNED on the title page. 238 pp. ISBN: 978-1847080486.