Plays Well with Others

First edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. [x], 337, [16 (author's missive)], [2]. Quarter-bound blue cloth over tan paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; deckled fore-edges. B/w frontispiece. Jacket design by Chip Kidd. 1/100,000 copies printed.

Portions of this work originally appeared, in slightly different form, in GQ and The New Yorker. A 1997 New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

Author's second novel. An elegiac fable set in the 1980s Manhattan of entry-level artists, as the AIDS epidemic cuts a swathe through their community, narrated by a "somewhat overbred Southerner". By the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1989). "A wondrous book... brimming with life.... [It] confirms Gurganus's stature as one of our most significant and indispensable writers." –Atlanta Journal & Constitution