New York: Norton, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - His first full-length novel since the completion of the 12 volume "A Dance to the Music of Time" series - although in one sense, this is a novel about gossip on a cruise ship - specifically gossip about an aging society photographer, maimed in war, and the much younger woman with him, it is also infused with Greek mythology, Arthurian legends and satire. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-39302363x.