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The Death and Life of Harry Goth

D. Keith Mano

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Description:From the dustjacket:From the celebrated author of Bishop's Progess, Horn, and War Is Heaven! comes a first comic novel, a novel that manages to incorporate six deaths, three funerals, the industrial sanitation biz, ready-frozen corpses, sex--and the frantic struggle of a not very heroic hero to elevate his life through an understanding of death.Harry Goth is a man of minimal consciousness, despised by his buck-toothed and buck-breasted wife, scorned by a father who won't even pay to have his dying son frozen for future medical cures. He has four brothers: a monk, a thief, a roué, and a gibbering idiot. Other characters include Johnny (The Big Embalmer) Costello, on loan from the Mafia and known along funeral row as "a widow layer." Grandma Goth, who eats to stay alive, who plays tunes on the testicles of her gibbering idiot grandson with a knobbled stick. George "Freezy" Slocum, partner in Frigid Hills, the Grossinger's of the quick-freeze game. And Peggy the Temporary, a hundred and sixty pounds (none of it bosom)--"she had given her body away six times: five times it had been returned unused." Looming over all, Cleano Corp., the Goth family manufacturing firm, built like a musty old armory and source of the wonderful, omnipresent Johnny Do Toilet Brush.Well, despite everything (and everyone), Harry strives. And as the specter of death rushes swiftly toward him, a new strength begins to flower. There is freedom as well as comedy in his awkward, fumbling, yet finally heroic attempts to find the meaning of life in the presence of The End.Like Mr. Mano's previous books, his latest novel deals with modern Christian problems. But in The Death and Life of Harry Goth, he employs larger, freer, more extravagant language and incident, a new layer of artistic resources and invention. This is an important book in an importnt writer's career.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Death and Life of Harry Goth. To get started finding The Death and Life of Harry Goth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1971

ISBN: 0394468333

Description: From the dustjacket:From the celebrated author of Bishop's Progess, Horn, and War Is Heaven! comes a first comic novel, a novel that manages to incorporate six deaths, three funerals, the industrial sanitation biz, ready-frozen corpses, sex--and the frantic struggle of a not very heroic hero to elevate his life through an understanding of death.Harry Goth is a man of minimal consciousness, despised by his buck-toothed and buck-breasted wife, scorned by a father who won't even pay to have his dying son frozen for future medical cures. He has four brothers: a monk, a thief, a roué, and a gibbering idiot. Other characters include Johnny (The Big Embalmer) Costello, on loan from the Mafia and known along funeral row as "a widow layer." Grandma Goth, who eats to stay alive, who plays tunes on the testicles of her gibbering idiot grandson with a knobbled stick. George "Freezy" Slocum, partner in Frigid Hills, the Grossinger's of the quick-freeze game. And Peggy the Temporary, a hundred and sixty pounds (none of it bosom)--"she had given her body away six times: five times it had been returned unused." Looming over all, Cleano Corp., the Goth family manufacturing firm, built like a musty old armory and source of the wonderful, omnipresent Johnny Do Toilet Brush.Well, despite everything (and everyone), Harry strives. And as the specter of death rushes swiftly toward him, a new strength begins to flower. There is freedom as well as comedy in his awkward, fumbling, yet finally heroic attempts to find the meaning of life in the presence of The End.Like Mr. Mano's previous books, his latest novel deals with modern Christian problems. But in The Death and Life of Harry Goth, he employs larger, freer, more extravagant language and incident, a new layer of artistic resources and invention. This is an important book in an importnt writer's career.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Death and Life of Harry Goth. To get started finding The Death and Life of Harry Goth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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