Thomas Berger

Pequeño Gran Hombre fue adaptada al cine en 1970 por Arthur Penn, con un joven Dustin Hoffman en una de las interpretaciones más destacadas de su fructífera carrera. Thomas Berger (1924-2014), originario de Cincinnati, escribio un buen numero de nove

El timbre suena en la casa de John Felton. Del otro lado está el mal. Lleva zapatillas deportivas caras, una gorra de béisbol, y dice llamarse Richie. Le pide ayuda a John con su coche, que ha sufrido un desperfecto. Un altercado en la gasolinera conduce a un crimen espantoso, y John se ve envuelto en una espiral de violencia cada vez mas terrible. Cuando por fin consigue librarse de Richie y regresar a su casa, vuelve a encontrarselo alli, comodamente instalado en su salon, charlando con su esposa.Asi comienza la transformacion de John Felton, un esposo y padre de clase media, en un hombre dispuesto a hacer lo que sea para proteger a su familia.Con El rostro del mal, el escalofriante retrato de un hombre corriente enfrentado al verdadero significado de la maldad, Thomas Berger vuelve a demostrar su insuperable maestria para explorar los limites de nuestra aparente seguridad y para convertir la vida cotidiana en una pesadilla.

Suburban regular guy Earl Keese confronts the yawning pit of chaos in the persons of Harry and Ramona, a younger couple who have just moved into the only other house on their dead-end street. Literally overnight, Earls painstakingly controlled world is turned upside down. Soon he is engaged in guerilla warfare with his new neighbors, who seem to threaten the very fabric of his carefully constructed reality.

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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The characters in Best Friends...are...recognizably human in their weaknesses and their destinies. It is Bergers genius as an observer and storyteller that we never, for a moment, take our eyes off them.Jeffrey Frank, The Washington Post Book WorldA moving story about childhood friendships falling under the strain of adulthood quickly becomes so much more in this tale that is as absurd as it is true to life from the author of Little Big Man. Roy Courtright and Sam Grendy have been best friends for as long as either of them care to remember. As far as theyre concerned, theyre brothers, but sans the mess of a sibling rivalry. That theyre complete opposites has never mattered. Until now. After Sam suffers a heart attack, Roy and Sams wife Kristen both find themselves wishing they had said moreto Sam, and to each other. Just as Roy begins to grapple with these new feelings for Kristen, things go from bad to worse. The woman Roys been meaning to break up with has been murdered. What starts off as the charming tale of an oddball friendship quickly becomes a feast of shocking twists, heartbreak, and vengeance that only Thomas Berger could weave.Additional Praise for Best Friends: Bergersstyle [is] at once elegant and casual, with his usual mix of sweetness and cynicism.Los Angeles Times [Bergers] precise and exquisite dialogue [are] entertaining, even when the plot is ridiculous. And his deeply ironic view of the world we live in is refreshing, especially these days when irony is in short supply.Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Incorrigibly subversive.The Hollywood Reporter [Best Friends] is, in fact, a compact accomplished novel of ideas. That Bergers take on adultery, loyalty, friendship and myriad other intangibles is both deeply satirical and deeply felt is perhaps the books real wonder. LA Weekly No other writer can build a symphony of seriocomic confusion with such a sure touch. Bergers terrific plot takes several unforeseen and unsettling turns en route to its savage denouement. And its capped by an absolute killer of a final sentence. Nobody writes them like Thomas Berger. Not to be missed.Kirkus Reviews

El timbre suena en la casa de John Felton. Del otro lado está el mal. Lleva zapatillas deportivas caras, una gorra de béisbol, y dice llamarse Richie. Le pide ayuda a John con su coche, que ha sufrido un desperfecto. Un altercado en la gasolinera conduce a un crimen espantoso, y John se ve envuelto en una espiral de violencia cada vez mas terrible. Cuando por fin consigue librarse de Richie y regresar a su casa, vuelve a encontrarselo alli, comodamente instalado en su salon, charlando con su esposa.Asi comienza la transformacion de John Felton, un esposo y padre de clase media, en un hombre dispuesto a hacer lo que sea para proteger a su familia.Con El rostro del mal, el escalofriante retrato de un hombre corriente enfrentado al verdadero significado de la maldad, Thomas Berger vuelve a demostrar su insuperable maestria para explorar los limites de nuestra aparente seguridad y para convertir la vida cotidiana en una pesadilla.

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 Bergers 1964 masterpiece of American fiction, Little Big Man. Berger claimed the Western as serious literature with this savage and epic account of one mans 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 himselfa man hed 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 . . . Bergers 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

Je mappelle Jack Crabb.Jai cent vingt ans ; jai vécu la moitié de ma vie chez les Blancs et lautre parmi les Indiens cheyennes. Jai été pionnier, éclaireur, as de la gâchette, chasseur de bisons. Jai

Memoria fictica, narración de aventuras con toques de humor, una novela con mucho de histórica y de homenaje a la vez al viejo Oeste norteamericano. Un desocupado coleccionista y aficionado a las antiguedades anciano de mas de ciento diez años, el viejo Jack Crabb, superviviente de la batalla de Little Bighorn, aquella en la que sioux, cheyennes y otros aliados hicieron picadillo a Custer y a parte de su septimo de caballeria. Pero no fue el uncio superviviente de aquella legendaria batalla. En su relato cuenta que primero fue niño blanco, luego, cheyenne y adolescente blanco y guerrero cheyenne despues y jugador de ventaja y buscador de oro y cazador de bufalos, y explorador del ejercito y confidente del general Custer, y amigo de Will Bill Hickok...Un relato fiel a la historia y a la aventura