Berg

by Ann Quin (Author)

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Paperback
2019
$12.67

`A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . ' So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut `so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it' (The Guardian). Alistair Berg, hair restorer, 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 the man he needs to kill.Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic of post-war avant-garde British writing.

Synopsis

`A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father. . . ' So begins Ann Quin's first novel, a debut `so staggeringly superior to most you'll never forget it' (The Guardian). Alistair Berg, hair restorer, 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 the man he needs to kill.Mordant, heady, dark, Berg is Quin's masterpiece, a classic of post-war avant-garde British writing.

$12.67

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 07 Mar 2019
ISBN 10: 1911508547
ISBN 13: 9781911508540

Media Reviews

`A mixture of the surreal, the whimsical and the macabre [...] [Berg] is funny and profound, and intensely of its time.' Ian Patterson, London Review of BooksPraise for Ann Quin 'A marvellously warped book' New York Times `Quin works over a small area with the finest of tools... every page, every word gives evidence of her care and workmanship.' New York Times Book Review `Quin's prose never falters; it's stunning.' Caitlin Youngquist, The Paris Review

Author Bio

Ann Quin (b. 1936) was a British writer from Brighton. She was prominent amongst a group of British experimental writers of the 1960s, which included B.S. Johnson. Prior to her death in 1973, she published four novels: Berg (1964), Three (1966), Passages (1969), and Tripticks (1972). A collection of short stories and fragments, The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson) was published by And Other Stories in 2018.