Chapter 1. By Way of an Introduction to the Novel, This or Any
Chapter 2. The Matrix: In Which Certain Geographic, Historic, Economic & Ethnic Factors Get Described and Thence Enter the Drama; Also Flora & Fauna & Other Environmental Marginalia; Some Local Traditions; A Fabled Place & an Early Murder There
Chapter 3. Three Tales from His Childhood
Chapter 4. Her Mother Speaks to Her of a Man She Calls “Your Father”
Chapter 4. Addendum A
Chapter 4. Addendum B
Chapter 4. Addendum C
Chapter 5. Back and Fill: In Which the Hero’s Ditch, Having Got Dug and the Pipe’s Having Been Laid Therein, Gets Filled; Including a Brief Digression Concerning the Demon Asmodeus, along with Certain Other Digressions of Great and Small Interest
Chapter 6. Chapter Beginning as “His Second Wife Speaks of a Man She Calls ‘Your Father’ (from a Tape Recording)”
Chapter 7. Ausable Chasm
Chapter 8. 100 Selected, Uninteresting Things Done and Said by Hamilton Stark
Chapter 9. The Uroboros: Being a Further Declension of the Central Image
Chapter 10. Graveside
Chapter 11. An End
About the Author
Notes
