RaveThe Slate Book ReviewJoe is a hero, though an unwitting one — he remains in the dark about just what the hell is going on for the bulk of Angelmaker’s nearly 500 pages ...Harkaway’s prose is playful and beguiling, with a keen satiric edge, and that makes all the difference ...isn’t simply a funny writer; he adroitly uses humor to slide us gently into a given scene or character, and then invites us to settle in and root around a bit, the way you wiggle your toes once you've slipped on a comfortable boot ...written a pleasantly roomy book, a grand old manor house of a novel that sprawls and stretches and invites you to do likewise on any one of its richly tufted fainting couches ...deftly, enriches prose, warms us to characters, and causes the tightest plot thread to loosen agreeably.
