Calvin Millet struggles to cope with marital breakup, his daughter's terminal illness, bankruptcy, and the destruction of his house by a tornado, but the arrival of mysterious traveling
salesman Vernon L. Moore, in town to sell games of chance to the store, who possesses an uncanny talent for asking life-altering questions, helps Calvin and the other inhabitants of Ebb,
Nebraska, rediscover hope and second chances. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.