This is the first trade edition in a gray cloth cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This is an anti-war novel in which the sense of the progression of time is exluded, i.e., characters appear to have died but resurface on later pages as if they never died at all. The book is a masterpiece of experimental writing on a par with the experimental fiction of James Joyce. This is the fifth editon, the number of copies is unknown. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.