A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel ... full of wisdom and pain" by a #1 New York Times -bestselling author ( Los Angeles Times ). Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity. But as he gives himself...