Ann Quin

Berg

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'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.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-911508-55-7
EAN: 9781911508557
Produktnummer: 29838651
Verlag: And Other Stories Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 817 KB

Über den Autor

Ann Quin (1936-1973) was a British writer from Brighton. She was prominent among 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.