Anagrams by Lorrie Moore. 1986 Knopf, first edition, 225 pages. Moore is an award-winning master of the short story, funny and sad, dry and surprising. Anagrams was her first novel.

Condition: VG, crease to front flap, pencil markings are front paste-down

"Gerard Maines lived across the hall from a woman named Benna, who four minutes into any conversation always managed to say the word penis."