In a brief preface to this, his only novel, Edward Dorn describes By the Sound as "a sociological study of the basement stratum of its time: the never-ending story of hunger and pressing circumstance in a land of excess."
- ISBN13 9780876858417
- Publish Date 31 May 2012 (first published September 1991)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 27 January 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English