A Trip to the Stars

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 499, [1]. Quarter-bound black cloth over paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt to spine; apricot endpapers. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye (priced $24.95 to front flap).

Author's third novel. A boy is kidnapped in the mid-1960s at a Manhattan planetarium whilst under the supervision of his young adoptive aunt. A Trip to the Stars charts their paths over the next decade and a half, as they search for each other and in the process, discover themselves. "A large, lavishly inventive novel... An American descendant of The Arabian Nights – and as such it's thoroughly satisfying. An erudite and artful entertainment." –The New York Times Book Review