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This novel will appeal to readers interested in post-war British avant-garde fiction, those who appreciate darkly comic and experimental narratives, and fans of psychologically complex stories with unsettling yet captivating themes.
The much-anticipated republication of Ann Quin's masterpiece of post-war British fiction: caustic, thrilling, unforgettable.
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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 decides to 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.
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 Books
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ISBN: 9781911508540
Publisher: And Other Stories
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 March 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: And Other Stories
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 149g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
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.
Also by Ann Quin
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