"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." --New York Times Book Review "Manning's genius--his truly staggering genius--is in his ability to put this ancient question into a true American idiom, to make this fundamental human inquiry both vividly, heartbreakingly poignant and madly, idiosyncratically his own." --Smartish Pace "He's saved himself with the most basic of things--a place, its people,...