New York: Horizon Press, 1981. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Pulitzer prize-winning author's first book, which starts in Saigon where an American deserter, the last left in Vietnam, has been living for five years with a former Vietnamese prostitute. A powerful story of the power of love to create an Eden of a room in a back alley and of the clash of cultures when they do finally escape to America. SIGNED on title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-8180-06315.