Books, Arts & Manners: A Rising Star

War Is Heaven! By D. Keith Mano Doubleday, 226 pp., $5.95

Please, NR readers, remember that I told you so. You have the opportunity now to witness the emergence of a novelist of the first magnitude; you can be in the position of the reader who in 1926 picked a thin volume off the counter and began to read: “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that. . .” An entire new imaginative world comes into existence. And now Keith Mano, who has just published his third novel, and is still under thirty, comes forward as a comparable force—an imaginative force not only of promise but, already, of dazzling achievement.

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War Is Heaven! By D. Keith Mano Doubleday, 226 pp., $5.95

Please, NR readers, remember that I told you so. You have the opportunity now to witness the emergence of a novelist of the first magnitude; you can be in the position of the reader who in 1926 picked a thin volume off the counter and began to read: “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton. Do not think that I am very much impressed by that. . .” An entire new imaginative world comes into existence. And now Keith Mano, who has just published his third novel, and is still under thirty, comes forward as a comparable force—an imaginative force not only of promise but, already, of dazzling achievement.