New York: Breakaway Books, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen stories which "use a character's dedication (or addiction) to a sport to plumb hesitations and hopes. In 'A False Encounter,' a grieving son is driven to investigate why his seemingly happy father committed suicide. The quest eventually leads him back to a group of his father's college friends, all of them accomplished amateur boxers. The key to his father's behavior, it turns out, is hidden in a moment of triumph in his youth when, against all expectations, he was able to rise from the canvas after devastating blow. . . 'Death Valley' offers quite a different view of sports: a wealthy and accomplished, diffident young professional golfer visits her lover, a groundskeeper at a golf course in the California desert. Golf has helped to insulate her from the world, and her self-absorption and life of privilege are both called into question when she collides with the hard, sad lives of a group of migrant laborers camped close to the links." (Kirkus) SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 1-891369059.