Author

Publication

2019-05-14 - And Other Stories

Language

English

Word Count

42,000 words, Guess

Page Count

168 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPR6067.U5

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, which has been compared to the fiction of Samuel Beckett and Nathalie Sarraute. 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.

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