Berger, Thomas (Vol. 5) - Berger, Thomas 1924–
Berger, Thomas 1924–
Berger, an American novelist, short story writer, editor, and playwright, is best known for his novel, Little Big Man. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Vital Parts confirms Berger's rank as a major American novelist, one whose stylistic fecundity, psychological insight, and social knowledge are seemingly inexhaustible. Reinhart [Berger's "likeable Midwestern slob"] continues to move, clownlike, through his familiar world of "asymmetrical impulses, like a laughter hopelessly mad, hopelessly free," large in physique, generosity, honesty, gullibility, optimism, and capacity for enduring psychosocial wounds….
As in earlier Reinhart novels, the pace of events in Vital Parts is as phenomenally rapid as the tempo of the prose, the outcome is unexpected, explanations emerge late, and one is bombarded with continual novelty….
The laughter threading Vital Parts...
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