Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, (1989) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of nine short stories described by Madison Smartt Bell as "thoughtful and thought-provoking, wittily executed, seriously conceived, and refreshingly dissimilar to almost anything else in recent American fiction." Burgin is a five-time winner of the Pushcart Prize (two of his winning stories are in this collection) and editor for more than 25 years of the award-winning journal Boulevard, among other things. SIGNED and dated on the title page. A title in the Illinois Short Fiction series. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-252016025.