New York: Permanent Press, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - The sixth book by the author of "Erasure" (which is the basis for the film "American Fiction"), a dark and engrossing post-apocalyptic novel set against the landscape and among a society which has emerged years after a thermonuclear war. A blend of the realistic and the surrealistic, this is difficult-to-define novel, an exploration of the themes of alienation, isolation and the grotesque body - and whether man and the planet can both survive - and also, an alphabet book beginning with 'A is for Achitophel' and ending with 'Z is for Zulus.' 247 pp. ISBN: 0-932966-977.