First US edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 279, [2]. Mulberry coloured paper boards, stamped in silver foil to spine; cream endpapers. Deckled fore-edge and ribbon-marker sewn-in.
Signed and inscribed in black ink by Author to title-page, in the year of publication.
In the first year of the new millennium, the dysfunctional family of a woman astronaut descends upon the state of Florida, gathering to watch her launch into space off Cape Canaveral. By the author of Miss Wyoming, Generation X, and Girlfriend in a Coma. "I am an extravagant admirer of Douglas Coupland. He is one of the freshest, most exciting voices of the novel today." –Tom Wolfe