(price-clipped) [book is flawless; jacket shows just the tiniest bit of surface wear to the front panel, long vertical crease in front flap]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To _________ / Remember, it's fiction. / All the best, / Katie Arnoldi / 3/3/01." The author's first novel, "a novel of obsession" about an unwed mother from Georgia who moves to California to reinvent her life via body-building, and falls under the influence of a rich guy for whom she "is his sexual ideal, the raw material from which he will shape his masterpiece." Signed by Author