Berger, Thomas [Louis]
Berger, Thomas [Louis]( 1924– ),Cincinnati-born author, long resident in New York, whose works include Crazy in Berlin (1958), the beginning of a comic saga about Carlo Reinhart, a happy GI in occupied Germany at the end of World War II, whose fantastic picaresque tale is continued in Reinhart in Love (1962), with the anti-hero back in his conformist Midwest home, and concluded in Vital Parts (1970), in which Reinhart's curiously old-fashioned style appeals to the salesman Bob Sweet, who wants to preserve him through cryonics. Little Big Man (1964) is a fanciful parody of the Old West myth presented through the life of the ancient frontiersman Jack Crabb, kidnapped by Indians from an emigrant wagon and eventually a participant in Custer's last stand. Killing Time (1967) presents through the tale of a mass murderer many questions about sanity and madness, crime and legality. Regiment of Women (1973)...
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