Original black cloth on boards. Library record shows 14 borrowers and two purchasers, and still clean and sound ! Piece of DJ glued to front free endpaper. More strange happenings on a Transatlantic liner, Wallace's favourite setting, apparently. According to his internet biography, Wallace is remembered for his Colonial snobbishness, his prodigious output, and his ability to gamble away even more money than he earned. This was his last novel, published in the year of his death. Cocked. 252 pp.