Hardcover. Stated 1st printing hardcover with dustjacket 1997 Counterpoint. Superclean; no marks; pages bright; binding tight. Only light shelfwear. 338pp. Language: English. NOTE: Cannot ship outside U.S. via Global Priority -- Surface or Airmail only. 'Original, quirky, impressive first fiction by a former Zen student, British-born, who now teaches at the University of Montana. Hester's greatest strength lies in his dialogue, given here without quote marks (as in Cormac McCarthy), and creating a kind of many-voiced stream-of-consciousness narrative. And the storytelling is equally unsettling, often jumping from scene to scene with dizzying speed. At the novel's core is the search by Rudyard Gillette, a distressed middle-aged man, for the now-vanished woman he once loved. ... The story plays itself out deliciously ... this is a highly idiosyncratic, audacious debut.'--Kirkus Reviews, 1997.