Let Me Count the Ways

The sins of the father are hilariously visited on the son in this witty and profound novel about the meaning of it all

Stanley Waltz is a Polish American piano mover and pugnacious atheist married to a born-again believer. His heroes are H. L. Mencken and Clarence Darrow, and if he confuses “illusion” with “allusion” and thinks a certain style of egg is “bedeviled,” that does not mean his reasonin...