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Summary: FIND THIS AND READ IT!
Review: The trials of an Episcopal priest who returns to NYC from Nebraska, to help out his sister-in-law (his brother has disappeared) to help run the family business. Which as the title implies is a strip joint (no "gentleman's club" this).

I found this on the street for buck, and thought it would be a nice intro into Mano's work (Take Five has been on queue for a while - but it has moved up drastically).

Mystery, intrigue, religion and naked girls! Actually it's a wonderful study of both topless dancers and priests (Episcopalian not RC) full of humour and pathos. And Mano writes really well. It's seems effortless, but as Fr. Mike says in one of his journal entries, "Good writng is hard work". He's not overbearingly hard (a nice break after Cortazar's Hopscotch, but he is very intelligent (nice period). But what surprised me most about this was that it comes with a sterling recommendation from William F. Buckley (so liberals and conservatives can see eye to eye on a few things, after all).

Keep an eye out for this next time you're browsing your favourite used-bookstore. You know. Outside. In a building.

Rating:
Summary: FIND THIS AND READ IT!
Review: The trials of an Episcopal priest who returns to NYC from Nebraska, to help out his sister-in-law (his brother has disappeared) to help run the family business. Which as the title implies is a strip joint (no "gentleman's club" this).

I found this on the street for buck, and thought it would be a nice intro into Mano's work (Take Five has been on queue for a while - but it has moved up drastically).

Mystery, intrigue, religion and naked girls! Actually it's a wonderful study of both topless dancers and priests (Episcopalian not RC) full of humour and pathos. And Mano writes really well. It's seems effortless, but as Fr. Mike says in one of his journal entries, "Good writng is hard work". He's not overbearingly hard (a nice break after Cortazar's Hopscotch, but he is very intelligent (nice period). But what surprised me most about this was that it comes with a sterling recommendation from William F. Buckley (so liberals and conservatives can see eye to eye on a few things, after all).

Keep an eye out for this next time you're browsing your favourite used-bookstore. You know. Outside. In a building.