One Man's Dark

"Maurice Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim." New York Times Book Review "Manning's geniushis truly staggering geniusis 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 thingsa place, its people, and one of its songs." Orion Pulitzer finalist Maurice Manning is at the height of