Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Reminiscent of the author's early fiction -- "Room Temperature" and "The Mezzanine." It features Emmett, a man in his forties with a wife, two children, a cat and a duck, who gets up most mornings between 4 and 5 a.m., lights a fire in the living room fireplace with a single match, and thinks about the ordinary things in his life in an extraordinary way. Clean copy.
