New York: Crown, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first collection of short stories by this winner of the PEN/Nelson Algren Award (the judges were Toni Morrison, Donald Barthelme and Roger Groening.) This contains ten stories, set in the Great Lakes Region of the American midwest, which examine the courage and loneliness of misfits in a society that values conformity 242 p. ISBN: 0-517567822.