New York: Viking, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of tree long short stories - "The Girl Who Had Lived Among Artists", "Distant Cousins", and "A Glimpse of Sion's Glory" - set in very different times and places. "A beautiful girl of Bohemian habits precipitates an uncontrollable drama in a quiet provinicial town in 1938; an American scientist's expedition to Siberia in the early 1950s seems to open a completely unexpected possibility for the human species; and a brilliant young man, marked early as 'promising,' fails to chart his course--or his love--as he lives through the turbulent 1960s and 70s." 153 pp. ISBN: 0-670808970.