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Berger, Thomas Louis was born on July 20, 1924 in Cincinnati. Son of Thomas Charles and Mildred (Bubbe) Berger.
(Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (f...)
Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (father Doug; wife Audrey; son Bobby; and daughter-in-law Lydia) have gotten used to his polite manners and gourmet breakfasts. But one morning at the Graveses' summer home, Chuck fails to appear. When Chuck finally does surface, he is no longer sweet and charming, but rather has become aggressive and arrogant, abusing each family member in turn. Each family member that is, except the fellow outsider, Lydia. Once Chuck rescues her from the dangerous undertow of the ocean, Lydia can't help but feel obligated to him, even after his uninvited advances to her while she's half asleep. Slowly it becomes apparent to the family that Chuck isn't anyone's guest but rather a perfect stranger who wormed his way into their home. Yet the Graveses are so concerned with not offending him by being impolite that they willingly accept the abuse he freely dishes out. In private, however, they all scheme for his undoing. But will anyone muster up the courage? An eerie and clever novel, The Houseguest introduces one of Berger's most dangerous and compelling villains.
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(The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his nat...)
The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his natty white flannels, baby-blue shirt, striped tie, tan-and-white shoes, and coconut-straw hat with polka-dot band, is falling into one of his moods. Owner of a used-car lot and father of a fifteen-year-old son with a penchant for sex manuals, Buddy has decided to murder his wife and marry his mistress, Laverne, a robust blonde who cooks his favorite meal of fried pork chops, fried potatoes, and fried apples while wearing a short pink apron over black-lace step-ins and brassiere, long-gartered silk stockings, and platform shoes. The only problem is how to arrange the crime.
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(Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent...)
Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent perspective to the human experience, evoking a world that most dare not even imagine and effectively dismantling all existing definitions of sex and gender. "Imagined with such ferocity and glee that we assent to it almost in spite of ourselves . . . a brilliant accomplishment by one of out best novelists."--New York Times Book Review.
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(With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of ...)
With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of King Arthur, the Round Table knights and their ladies, while introducing inspired new twists to the stories of old. Thomas Berger has previously written Little Big Man, Killing Time and Changing the Past.
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(Carlo Reinhart returns home from service in occupied Germ...)
Carlo Reinhart returns home from service in occupied Germany and finds the postwar U.S. a different world: housing developments, gadget technology, a physical and spiritual malaise that boom times evoke. Good-hearted and intelligent, sympathetic but cynical, Reinhart is a participant who nevertheless remains a spectator. This gives the story its piquancy. Imagine going full throttle for success, simultaneously riding the brakes in apprehension. "Picture Fiedling's Tom Jones in a 20th century landscape and you'll have some idea of REINHART IN LOVE." (The New York Times)
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(Crazy in Berlin is the first volume in the saga of Carlo ...)
Crazy in Berlin is the first volume in the saga of Carlo Reinhart. As an army medic stationed in Allied-occupied Germany, Reinhart is a young man of large bulk (two hundred pounds, plus)—good-hearted, intelligent, and something of a fool. He pursues with anxiety and bewilderment his custodial role over a shattered and noxious civilization, accompanied by an assortment of influences: Nathan Schild, an American Communist acting as a U.S. intelligence office; the war waif Trudchen, an accommodating Heidi; Schatzi, a charter-member Nazi, now a Russian courier and black market virtuoso. Crazy in Berlin is a lusty tale, full of irony and wit, of a stumbling American Odysseus. Praise for Crazy In Berlin “Thomas Berger is a name to remember. . . . A novelist with a great career before him.”—Harvey Swados, The New Leader “One of the best war novels, and one of our best novels no matter what kind.”—W.G. Rogers, Associated Press “An ambitious mixture of high moral earnestness and knock-about farce.”—Pearl Bell, Commentary
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(The saga of Thomas Berger's Reinhart series continues. Ca...)
The saga of Thomas Berger's Reinhart series continues. Carlo Reinhart, now a 44-year-old liberal, has found himself to be merely a vague shadow of the young man he once was. Bob Sweet, a high school acquaintance for whom success has become a habit walks into his life.
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( Meeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frig...)
Meeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frightening tale of malevolence that swerves swiftly and irrevocably to a catastrophic climax. John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He tells John his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime as violence begets violence. At the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie ensconced in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has somehow seeped into his life. Thus begins the transformation of an unremarkable husband and father of two into a desperate man willing to go to any length to protect his family from the darkness that threatens them. This is an extraordinary masterpiece and a chilling portrait of mounting menace played out against an everyday world of domestic routine, personified in a protagonist of basic decency grappling with both the immediate and existential meaning of true evil. Now a major motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson and Luke Wilson.
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( Fed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespect...)
Fed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespectful women he comes across, Ellery Pierce decides his only choice is to build the perfect woman. A technician at an animatronics firm, Ellery has the experience and tools ready at his fingertips. After years of experiments and fine-tuning, Ellery feels he finally has created an artificial woman who can pass as real -- Phyllis. According to Ellery, Phyllis is the perfect wife, fulfilling his every wish, from gourmet meals to sexual pleasure. Unfortunately for Ellery, he may have made her too closely in his image for his own good. Yearning to make it big in show business, Phyllis leaves Ellery with dreams of Hollywood. She works her way up from a strip club, a phone sex operation, a pornography website, and a small town playhouse to a gig in the movies. Soon she's a bona fide box office sensation. Eventually, Phyllis sets her sights on the ultimate goal -- presidency of the United States. By now, after completely falling apart upon Phyllis's departure, Ellery has pulled himself together and is back with Phyllis to steer her along her course, or so he thinks. It's no surprise when Phyllis wins the election, but it's too late when Ellery begins to wonder if this time she's gone too far. Adventures of the Artificial Woman is another scathingly hilarious and sinister novel from Thomas Berger, this time about a beautiful creation gone completely haywire.
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(“The truth is always made up of little particulars which ...)
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” So says Jack Crabb, the 111-year-old narrator of Thomas Berger’s 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one man’s extraordinary double life. After surviving the massacre of his pioneer family, ten-year-old Jack is adopted by an Indian chief who nicknames him Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, he feasts on dog, loves four wives, and sees his people butchered by horse soldiers commanded by General George Armstrong Custer. Later, living as a white man once more, he hunts the buffalo to near-extinction, tangles with Wyatt Earp, cheats Wild Bill Hickok, and fights in the Battle of Little Bighorn alongside Custer himself—a man he’d sworn to kill. Hailed by The Nation as “a seminal event,” Little Big Man is a singular literary achievement that, like its hero, only gets better with age. Praise for Little Big Man “An epic such as Mark Twain might have given us.”—Henry Miller “The very best novel ever about the American West.”—The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Crabb surely must be one of the most delightfully absurd fictional fossils ever unearthed.”—Time “Superb . . . Berger’s success in capturing the points of view and emotional atmosphere of a vanished era is uncanny. His skill in characterization, his narrative power and his somewhat cynical humor are all outstanding.”—The New York Times
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(In a modern Robinson Crusoe tale by the author of Little ...)
In a modern Robinson Crusoe tale by the author of Little Big Man, Robert Crews, a middle-aged alcoholic, embarks on a mythic survival adventure when his plane crashes and he encounters Friday, running from her husband. 30,000 first printing.
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(From Library Journal: Things are not going well for Fred ...)
From Library Journal: Things are not going well for Fred Wagner, a typical Berger victim. His wife has left him, his job as a catalog copywriter is becoming increasingly unsatisfying, and his novel, after six years, has not progressed beyond the opening pages. Wagner discovers, however, that he does have a talenthe can make himself invisibleand the novel recounts his struggle to make the best of this unique gift. But surprisingly, Wagner finds that whether he is trying to bypass a long line, steal from a bank, or avoid his co-workers, invisibility has its drawbacks; rather than improving his situation, each invisible adventure leads to a further mishap. In subject and tone, Berger's novel is similar to Charles Simmons's Powdered Eggs (1964), but it is less innovative in style and narrative technique. Recommended for larger fiction collections. William Gargan, Brooklyn Coll. Lib., CUNY Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Berger, Thomas Louis was born on July 20, 1924 in Cincinnati. Son of Thomas Charles and Mildred (Bubbe) Berger.
Bachelor with honors, University Cincinnati, 1948. Postgraduate, Columbia University, 1950—1951. Doctor of Letters (honorary), L.I.U., 1986.
Librarian Rand School Social Science, New York City, 1948—1951. Staff member New York Times Index, 1951—1952. Associate editor Popular Science Monthly, 1952—1953.
Distinguished visiting professor Southampton College, 1975—1976. Visiting lecturer Yale University, 1981, 82. Regent's lecturer University California, Davis, 1982.
With United States Army, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
(In a modern Robinson Crusoe tale by the author of Little ...)
(Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent...)
(Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent...)
(With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of ...)
(With these tales, the author pays homage to the lives of ...)
( Fed up with the sarcastic, opinionated, and disrespect...)
( Meeting Evil tells an adrenaline-pumped, genuinely frig...)
(The author of Little Big Man and The Feud here explores t...)
(From Library Journal: Things are not going well for Fred ...)
(“The truth is always made up of little particulars which ...)
(Carlo Reinhart returns in this concluding volume of Thoma...)
(Carlo Reinhart returns home from service in occupied Germ...)
(Crazy in Berlin is the first volume in the saga of Carlo ...)
(The saga of Thomas Berger's Reinhart series continues. Ca...)
(KILLING TIME is a psychological novel about crime. The he...)
(Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (f...)
(Chuck Burgoyne is no ordinary houseguest. The Graveses (f...)
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(The time is the 1930s. Buddy Sandifer, dressed in his nat...)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations.
Married Jeanne Redpath, June 12, 1950.