Berg

by Ann Quin

Overview

'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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781911508557
Publisher:	And Other Stories Publishing
Publication date:	03/07/2019
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	585,422
File size:	856 KB

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"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

"A marvellously warped book.' New York Times

"One of Britain’s most adventurous post-war writers. Psychologically dark and sexually daring, Quin’s relentlessly experimental prose reads like nobody else." Juliet Jacques

"She is one of our greatest ever novelists. Ann Quin’s was a new British working-class voice that had not been heard before.’ Lee Rourke, The Guardian

"Quin’s prose is as sharp as a deadly blade, flashing between light and dark with arresting effect.’ Financial Times

‘A gritty yet deliciously strange masterpiece of British fiction’ – Calum Barnes, Morning Star

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