"Originally published in hardcover ... by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, in 2008"--Title page verso.
Contents
Under morphine -- Out from under.
Summary
In the second year of the Korean War, a butcher's son flees Newark because of his father's increasingly unhinged fears for his safety. Heading to the Midwest, he finds a strange collegiate land of fraternities, football heroes, V-neck pullover sweaters and white buckskin shoes, mandatory chapel services, and, most startlingly, a young woman with desires of her own.
