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The verse is found in | The verse is found in only one place, as an [[epigraph]] on a blank page four pages after the title page and two pages before the beginning of the text.<ref>The entire verse is in italics. ''Any God Will Do'', Random House, New York, 1966, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-21462</ref> Unlike some of Condon's other books, however, in which the verse is clearly relevant to the theme of the book, this particular title, ''Any God Will Do'', has no apparent relevance to what happens in the course of the novel. | ||
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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 only one place, as an epigraph on a blank page four pages after the title page and two pages before the beginning of the text.[1] Unlike some of Condon's other books, however, in which the verse is clearly relevant to the theme of the book, this particular title, Any God Will Do, has no apparent relevance to what happens in the course of the novel.
Theme
Characters
Typical Condon quirks and characteristics
References
- ↑ The entire verse is in italics. Any God Will Do, Random House, New York, 1966, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 66-21462