New York: Viking, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's fifth novel, seventh book - a story of the complicated relationship between brothers - "Del, who used to do p.r. work in Houston, is given a condo in Biloxi, Mississippi, by his grateful ex-father-in-law after Del divorces the man's daughter. Biloxi happens to be home-base for Del's college-teacher brother Bud, too - -plus Bud's attractive wife Margaret. . . One of Barthelme's more haunting novels. " (Kirkus ) 262 pp. ISBN: 0-670832421.