First UK edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 144, [1]. Turquoise cloth boards, stamped in silver to spine; stippled, grey endpapers. Dust jacket blurbs by David Foster Wallace, Neal Pollack, Zadie Smith, and Dave Eggers.
Signed by Author to title page.
Author's literary debut. Named one of the BBC's top 100 reads. A collection of 12 short stories assembled around a series of hapless and troubled characters, some of which originally appeared in different form in Bomb, Epoch, Esquire, McSweeney's, and Speak. "His perfect, perfect stories remain in your head, much like, say, a severed torso might remain under the tracks of a train." –Dave Eggers