Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1985. First edition - A satirical novel about government bureaucracy, involving a "treacherous journalist, a bumptiously brilliant grant seeker, representatives from the mysterious Temple of Ray, and the hapless organizers of a presidential campaign who interfere with the back stabbing and status-seeking antics at Washington's Division of Evaluation, Training, and Morale." Annie Dillard called this "wonderfully, howlingly funny.. . a tour de force that sends up not only Washington politics but all contemporary culture." 286 pp.