Billy was deposited as an infant on the doorstep of Thomas Mann's home in a basket with a message reading "Eddie's bastard." Eddie, Thomas' son, had died in Vietnam, so now suddenly, Thomas had a grandson and an heir - to the long legacy of the Mann family stories, stretching back to the Civil War.
- ISBN10 0061952389
- ISBN13 9780061952388
- Publish Date 2 June 2009 (first published 8 September 1999)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 11 April 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Format eBook
- Pages 384
- Language English