Berg

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'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

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781911508540
Published: March 2019

Number of pages: 160
Width: 129 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: And Other Stories