Love in a Blue Time

First US edition. 8vo. 212pp. Quarter-bound black cloth over red paper-covered boards, lettered in silver foil to spine. Jacket design by Carin Goldberg. "In a Blue Time" and "With Your Tongue down My Throat" first appeared in Granta; "We're Not Jews" first appeared in the London Review of Books; "D'accord, Baby" appeared in Atlantic Monthly and the Independent Magazine; "My Son the Fanatic" first appeared in The New Yorker, and subsequently in New Writing 4 (ed. A. S. Byatt and Alan Hollinghurst); while "The Tale of the Turd" first appeared in em writing & music and The Word.

Signed by Author to title page.

A 1997 New York Times Notable Book. Author's first short story collection and third fiction book, charting a generation's growth from the liberating irreverence of the late 1970s to the dilemmas of responsibility and fidelity of the 1990s.