MATING & A THOUSAND ACRES
New York: Knopf, 1991. First edition thus. Paperback. Advance excerpts, signed by each author, in shrinkwrap, and housed in the original publisher's decorated slipcase. 'Mating' by Norman Rush won the National Book Award. A first-person narrative by an unnamed American anthropology graduate student in Botswana around 1980. Jane Smiley's 'A..... More