Note that there are two versions that were sold...the male and female editions.
I’ve actually read it. It was one of the better examples of post-modern literature that I’ve been exposed to. It doesn’t redeem a lot of the shallowness and abuses of other PoMo artists but it does show that it’s possible to make good work in that school of thought. His second book “Landscape Painted with Tea” was even better in some ways. I’ve not read any of the others...