Brindle & Glass, Edmonton, 2005, 1^st pr thus, revised.  ISBN 1-897142-03-X.  Trade soft cover, 177 pages including Afterword.  Unread copy with a touch of edge and cover wear, two small marks on verso of rear wrap; not remaindered.  ‘Meet Tyrone Lock.  Misfit son of farmers; overeducated, underemployed.  An incurable nose-picker and squeezer of Revels in the supermarket.  An undergraduate Adrian Mole wandering the dry coulees of Southern Alberta, strumming miserable songs on his guitar.  His girlfriend – the lovely, pampered Miss Athena Till, who should be out of his league – is devoted to him.  So:  life is perfect, no?  Except that in a few days, Tyrone and Athena are leaving for Europe, a trip Tyrone would do anything to get out of.  And he tries, oh, how he tries.  But the best-laid plans …’ (from rear wrap)