New York: Grove Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Irish author's award winning first book (the Irish Times Literature Prize for Fiction for 1999). This interweaves the lives of three characters: Arthur Cravan, art critic, bon vivant, amateur boxer and nephew of Oscar Wilde, who disappeared shortly after his marriage to poet Mina Loy, as he was attempting to avoid conscription in the first World War, and Jack Johnson who become the first black heavyweight champion of the world. Much of the novel is told in the form of letters between Loy and Johnson, thirty years after Cravan disappered. SIGNED on the title page. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-802116477.