New York: Scribner, 1977. First edition - Author's first novel - described as 'extraordinary' and highly praised by Madeline L'Engle, Anne Rivers Siddons, and Fay Weldon. After years of doing what her parents wanted, and then what her husband wanted, a 42 year old woman, with a life many would envy, refuses treatment for her cancer - the first independent decision she has made in her adult life. An uncommon advance issue. 186 pp.