Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning author's second novel set in South Caroline, "a wickedly funny academic satire, grafted onto a manic plot featuring murder, madness, incest, a ghost and spirit possession. Ambitious, reclusive history professor Paul Danvers, desperate to achieve tenure, starts an affair with his student, Ginny Fennel, in order to gain access to the private papers of her notorious family, lighthouse keepers since the American Revolution, whose ancestors include slave dealers, black marketers and adventurers." A book which takes "publish or perish" literally. 284 pp. ISBN: 1-565120698.