New York: Viking, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which is part thriller, part social comedy, part psychological suspense novel. Quinn is a struggling writer, now fired from his college teaching post, who becomes obsessed with Brahmin Sarah Slade, whom he spots shoplifting in Bonwit's and follows home to Louisburg Square. A decade earlier, Sarah had murdered and castrated her lover, and had been found mad. The other "woman run mad" is Quinn's tightly controlled wife, Claire, a successful professor, who is determined to win him back. INSCRIBED on the half title page to the late noted Oklahoma collector Larry Owens. 258 pp. ISBN: 0-67081752x.