School of Marble and Mud

Jack Manchester loser women's shoe salesman--turned substitute teacher is running from his cheating fiancée with equilibrium problems a radical feminist group enforcer named Ambrosia the neighbor who stole his fence and his psychotic gun-wielding grandmother.</P><P>Most of all Jack Manchester is running from himself.</P><P>With only a few seconds to live however Manchester isn't going to run very far without recounting the memories and sorting things out from there.</P><P>Through his bitterly witty descriptions and ludicrous tales of debauchery Manchester attempts to understand and survive in the <I>School of Marble and Mud</I>.