Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1997, 1^st/1^st.  ISBN 0-395-86021-0.  Hard cover, 423 pages.  Very good plus; black paper over boards with gilt lettering on black cloth spine.  Binding sound with headbands; light shelf wear.  Price-clipped dust jacket has light edge and cover wear.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  1998 Pulitzer Prize winner.  ‘Seymour “Swede” Levoy – a legendary high school athlete, a devoted family man, a hard worker, the prosperous inheritor of his father’s Newark glove factory – comes of age in thriving, triumphant postwar America. … the Swede is not allowed to stay forever blissful inside the beloved hundred and seventy-year-old stone farmhouse, in rural Old Rimrock, where he lives with his pretty wife – the college sweetheart who was Miss New Jersey of 1949 – and the lively, precocious daughter who is the apple of his eye.  The apple of his eye, that is, until she grows up to be a revolutionary terrorist bent on destroying her father’s paradise.’ (from flaps)