Berg (British Literature)
Contributors: Giles Gordon (Introduction)
Edition: 1st Dalkey edition
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781564783028
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relat; Literary; Fiction; Fiction - General; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Mistresses; FIC; FIC019000; General; Fathers and sons; Experimental fiction
Description: "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. Against the backdrop of this gritty seaside town, an absurd and brutal plot develops involving three characters - Alistair Berg, his father, and their mutual mistress. In his attempt to kill his father, Berg mutilates a ventriloquist's dummy, almost falls victim to his father's mistaken sexual advances, and is relentlessly taunted by a group of tramps.

Disturbing and at times startlingly comic, Berg chronicles the interrelations among these three characters as they circle one another in an escalating spiral of violence."--BOOK JACKET.