Facing the Tank

Patrick Gale. Plume Books, $9.95 (30pp) ISBN 978-0-525-48568-1

According to PW , Gale has ``carried off yet another ridiculously crazy tour de force.'' The English village of Barrowcester gets turned upside-down: an American authority on hell researches heaven; the bishop is having ``Doubts''; a Cardinal impregnates a villager; a schoolboy thinks he has fathered a litter of puppies. (May)

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