These novels end up being what they aren't: completed. Written throughout the early 1980's, this assemblage of drafts bespeaks both a vocation tentatively asserted and a literature tentatively denied. Ranging from simple meditations on language, loss and love, to stringent experiments in form and structure, from the bluntly hallucinogenic to the gently speculative romance of ideas, the drafted works here also tell the story of the struggle between writing and art, of books that never quite happened becoming one that does.