Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1983. The hardcover issue of his first book, a collection of stories that was issued simultaneously in hardcover and softcover. The stories' locales are in the rural South; the book was published as part of the Press's commitment to literary fiction from the South, which brought out books by James Lee Burke as well as John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. Slight spine lean; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913377] SOLD