New York: St Martin's, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a realistic coming-of-age story as seen through the eyes of a young boy in San Francisco in the early 1970s, when Nixon - his father's hero - had just won his second election. SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner award for best new novel. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-312-187491.