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The Death and Life of Harry Goth By D. Keith Mano

Knopf, 320 pp., $6.95 Not long ago I alerted NR readers to the superb third novel of the young writer D. Keith Mano, War Is Heaven —a novel dealing in the most concrete way with counterinsurgency, but also God-haunted, humming with metaphysical overtones. We now have Mano’s fourth book in four years, and though the fact seems improbable, a priori, Mano has now surpassed himself. The Death and Life of Harry Goth is at once one of the funniest and most moving things I have ever read.

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The Death and Life of Harry Goth By D. Keith Mano

Knopf, 320 pp., $6.95 Not long ago I alerted NR readers to the superb third novel of the young writer D. Keith Mano, War Is Heaven —a novel dealing in the most concrete way with counterinsurgency, but also God-haunted, humming with metaphysical overtones. We now have Mano’s fourth book in four years, and though the fact seems improbable, a priori, Mano has now surpassed himself. The Death and Life of Harry Goth is at once one of the funniest and most moving things I have ever read.