New York: Random House, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A later and semi-autobiographical novel by this award winning and influential writer - among other things he founded the writing program at Stanford University, and received the both the Pulitzer award. One reviewer called this "deceptively simple: two bright young couples meet during the Depression and form an instant and lifelong friendship. Larry Morgan, a successful novelist and the narrator of the story, and his wife, Sally, have befriended the vibrant, wealthy, and often troubled Sid and Charity Lang. . . [it] is about loyalty and survival in its most everyday form. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Stegner. This was preceded by a signed Franklin Library edition, but signed copies of the trade edition are quite uncommon. 277 pp. Dust jacket by Wendell Minor. ISBN: 0-394562003.