HarperCollins, New York, 1989, 1^st US Edition, 1^st pr.  ISBN 0-06-016491-3.  Hard cover, 251 pages.  Very good plus; green boards with gilt lettering on spine; spine ends lightly bumped; binding tight with headbands.  Dust jacket with price intact shows light cover wear, and a bit of edge wear primarily at spine ends.  Book interior clean and unmarked.  Author’s first novel.  ‘Euchrid Eucrow is the result of generations of backwoods incest and moonshine consumption.  He is malformed and mute (but occasionally blessed with the ability to communicate with animals), prone to profuse nosebleeds and delusions of grandeur. … Everyone, even his almost comically nightmarish parents, harasses the gangly, speechless Euchrid, and he retreats into his own world, whose capital is a cave in the heart of the valley’s swamp.  But when that refuge is denied him, his sense of loneliness and resentment comes to focus on a privileged but unwitting impostor within the Ukulite community, even as she becomes obsessed with him.  Fantasies and dementia inexorably overwhelm Euchrid, and his story culminates in an act that brings the valley’s terrible vengeance down upon him.’ (from front flap)