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Any God Will Do, first published by Random House in 1966, is the sixth book by the American satirist and political novelist Richard Condon.
Critical reception
Title
The title, as is the case in six of Condon's first seven books, is derived from the last line of a typical bit of Condonian doggerel that supposedly comes from a fictitious Keener's Manual mentioned in many of his earlier novels:
- Interest is the key to life,
- Interest in the clue,
- Interest is the drum and fife
- And any god will do.
- Interest is the key to life,
The verse is found in two places: as an epigraph on a blank page four pages after the title page and two pages before the beginning of the text; and, on page XXX, as the closing words or coda of the book.[1]
Theme
Characters
Typical Condon quirks and characteristics
References
- ↑ The entire verse is in italics in both places in the book. Any God Will Do, Random House, New York, 1966, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-21462