Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus & Giroux , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. INSCRIBED AND DATED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a very clean, tight copy. Varied in theme, situation and character, this collection of vivid and gritty short stories deals with the brutality in intimate human relations, the exquisite horrors of New York City, looking at the worst and laughing to save sanity. all unmistakably Leonard Michaels.