San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - First work of longer fiction (although still a brief one) by this Virginia-born poet and short story writer - a moving story of jazz and an old muscian brought back to the United States as a 'musuem project' to capture his creative process and preserve his music. Small volume, 122 pp. ISBN: 0-8118-10275.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel translated from the Czech by Peter Kussi. 209 pp. ISBN: 0-94496604.

New York: Scribner, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Set against the backdrop of contemporary Brooklyn, New York and Paris and of those cities in the late 1940's, this is a story of family estrangement, love and hope for the future, when the young grandson of a great jazz pianist, an ex-patriot who lived and died in Paris, comes to the US for the first time and meets both sides of his warring family. A warm and appealing book. ISBN: 0-684-872838.