Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 216 pages. Interesting novel by this award-winning writer, the story of a woman, a "biographer of modest accomplishments" who is asked to write the authorized biography of a World War I flying ace who became an influential British politician until his rather mysterious death in an automobile accident during World War II. Clean copy.