Notes: - First Pocket Books printing August 2000. Full number line [10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1]. - Originally published in harcover by Scribner in 1999. - Front cover illustration by Tom Hallman, based on a concept by Paolo Pepe and Lisa Litwack. - Epigraphs from The Prisoner, Lord of the Flies and Easy Rider on p. [x]. - The stories have separate title pages complete with the years in which they are set. Each title page also contains a sort of motto printed in bold, smaller font above the title: "1960: They had a stick sharpened at both ends"; "1966: Man, we just couldn't stop laughing"; "1983: Gobless us everyone"; "1999: When someone dies, you think about the past"; and "1999: Come on, you bastard, come on home". - "Author's Note" on p. [673] signed "S.K. / December 22, 1998". - $10.99 in Canada.