Dec 22, 2009
The Feud is perhaps Berger's best example of what he has called “pure fiction”—relatively free of journalistic, sociological, and other thematic concerns. The novel's deliberately complicated plot and large cast of characters serve primarily to support its stylistic concerns, which, more than anywhere else in Berger's work, center on the way in which people manipulate language to justify outrageous behavior.
The dispute between Depression-era families somewhere in middle America begins when Dolf Beeler goes to Bud Bullard's hardware store for paint remover and, when...
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