New York: The Viking Press, (1981) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Amis's fourth novel. A young woman wakes in an emergency room with "no knowledge of her name, her past, or even her species. It takes her a while to realize that she is human -- and that the beings who threaten, befriend, and violate her are other people. . . an eerie, blackly funny, and sometimes disorienting novel, an investigation of a young woman's violent extinction that also traces her construction of a new and oddly innocent self." J. G. Ballard calls it "powerful and obsessive, a metaphysical thriller.. with the authority of a waking nightmare." SIGNED on the title page. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-670529486.