New York: Harper & Row, (1980). SIGNED first edition - The first novel by this Pulitzer prize winning author, described as a psychological thriller. The story of a woman whose obsession with the horses she raises and the son whom she expects to be an Olympic champion - after all, they are the Karlsons, the most envied family in the county - leads her to be blind to the dangers foreshadowed in this book. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-449-908747.