Understanding Thomas Berger

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Understanding Thomas Berger is written by Brooks Landon and published by Understanding Contemporary Ame. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1570038287 (ISBN 10) and 9781570038280 (ISBN 13).

This book looks at veteran novelist Thomas Berger best known for his wry explorations of the dialectic between the great American dream and the realities of middle-class American life, a frustrating nexus where characters might win knowledge and language but still lack opportunity for action. Berger's uncanny ability to satirize literary genres while participating in them has defined his career and led to such novels as his classic Westerns Little Big Man and The Return of Little Big Man, his hard-boiled detective story Who Is Teddy Villanova?, his Arthurian romance Arthur Rex, and his epic Reinhart series. The author approaches these works thematically to advance understanding of Berger's motives, influences, techniques, style, and language. According to the author, the limitations of language and its competition with thought are most central to the conflict for Berger's characters.