Meeting Evil (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Berger
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: Rural or country life, 1990’s, Suburban life, Comedy
- Locales: United States
Weary of being read as a literary comedian, Thomas Berger has written his most blackly humorous fiction—no mean achievement, given his version of the history of the American West in LITTLE BIG MAN and his retelling of the Orestes myth in ORRIE’S STORY. In MEETING EVIL, humor and horror are inextricably bound to each other in much the same way that the two main characters, strangers at first, become by novel’s end brothers of a sort in a deadly, and deadly funny, game of sibling rivalry. Hapless and helpless, John Felton, husband and father of two young children, is perfectly...
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