Title: Berg (British Literature)
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.
Subjects: Triangles (Interpersonal relations), Fiction, Fathers and sons, Mistresses, Fiction, general, Fathers and sons, fiction