Collected in one volume, the eight novellas of Peter Leroy`s life (and the variations on his life) which were previously published separately, plus one new one: My Mother Takes a Tumble , Do Clams Bite? , Life on the Bolotomy , The Static of the Spheres , The Fox and the Clam , The Girl with the White Fur Muff , Take the Long Way Home , Call Me Larry , and The Young Tars ,