Books
October, 1970
Generally, when visible agencies of the supernatural are introduced into modern fiction, it's for laughs--but Kingsley Amis is playing for more than laughter in his latest novel, The Green Man (Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovich). Along with the sardonic social satire and cool sexual comedy that we expect of him is a horror story that, on the way to its freezing climax, presents us with an offbeat incarnation of the Deity and a ghoulish reincarnation of a disciple of the Devil. The protagonist is the...
