New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel (third book) - A "surrealistic fable, both comic and moving." When a couple in their fifties - both city people - get a windfall of an inheritance, they abruptly leave Manhattan for the country, a couple of hours up the Hudson. The house they move into rests on a 1910 apartment building, and Walter begins excavating, while Sara, suddenly unblocked as an artist, documents his activities in her paintings while fending off a barrage of curious onlookers. 294 pp. ISBN: 0-39453932x.