'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside townintending to kill his father...'
So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'sostaggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it - The Guardian.'
Alistair Berg, hairrestorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will, he decides, eliminate his rival.After mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy, he finds himself accidentally seduced by theman he needs to kill. Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic ofpost-war avant-garde British writing.
'A mixture of the surreal, the whimsical and the macabre[...]Berg is funny andprofound, and intensely of its time' - Ian Patterson, London Review of Books
'A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside townintending to kill his father...'
So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut 'sostaggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it - The Guardian.'
Alistair Berg, hairrestorer, shares a mistress with his father. He will, he decides, eliminate his rival.After mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy, he finds himself accidentally seduced by theman he needs to kill. Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic ofpost-war avant-garde British writing.
'A mixture of the surreal, the whimsical and the macabre[...]Berg is funny andprofound, and intensely of its time' - Ian Patterson, London Review of Books
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks,...
One August day in 2008 the Norwegian Labour Party's most colourful MP, Arve Storefjeld, is discovered in a remote cabin in the country, together with four of his family and friends, all with their...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures,...
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