New York & London: Faber & Faber, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - An early novel by the author now best known for 'Erasure' (basis for the film "American Fiction") and the first book in the publisher's Callaloo series, dedicated to books by ``writers of African descent.'' This is a "corrosively funny and disquieting picaresque novel which addresses the politics of identity and the racist brutality that marked America's westward expansion after the Civil War. " Hard to find in the first edition, and especially so in this condition. 219 pp. ISBN: 978-057119832-0.