Thomas Berger
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Only white man to survive the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Indian-raised Jack Cabb describes his subsequent adventures. He bodyguards saloon owner Wild Bill Hickock, rides in Europe with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and acts as Sitting Bull's interpreter, witnessing his murder. A sequel to the 1964 Little Big Man.
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2003.
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English
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A 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 they're concerned, they're brothers, but sans the mess of a sibling rivalry. That they're complete opposites has never mattered. Until now....
3) Vital parts
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English
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Carlo Reinhart, now a 44-year-old liberal, has found himself to be merely a vague shadow of the young man he once was. Kicked out of the house by his wife and hated by his son, Carlo's daughter is naive and helpless. Bob Sweet, a high school acquaintance for whom success has become a habit walks into his life. The story is both humorous and pathetic.
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Little, Brown
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[1992]
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English
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The author of the Pulitzer Prize–finalist The Feud blurs reality in this breakneck thriller following one man's encounter with pure evil in high tops. John Felton is a creature of habit. His job in real estate comes with no surprises; it's respectable work he can be proud of. Routine has been kind to him, but when a normal Monday of looking after the kids gets interrupted by a ringing of his doorbell, John may have to kiss his uneventful life goodbye......
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Little, Brown
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[1990]
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English
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The Arthurian legend as it has never been told before . . . The myth of King Arthur has been told countless ways since the sixth century, always combining action, adventure, romance, and tragedy. In Arthur Rex, Thomas Berger updates the legend in irreverent fashion, forever changing King Arthur and his Round Table. In Berger's medieval England, the damsel in distress is never what she appears to be. Merlin is a wizard of a completely different stripe....
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Delta/S. Lawrence
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[1982]
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English
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Thomas Berger's debut novel of a young man tumultuously coming of age in postwar Germany Carlo Reinhart, a young American army medic stationed in Germany, confronts a disturbing new world following the end of World War II. Living in Berlin, a city fractured into barricaded sectors by the occupying powers, Reinhart begins to drive himself mad with memories of the evils he has witnessed and questions about how the atrocities took place. When he meets...
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William Morrow and Co
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[1996]
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English
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Officers Moody and LeBeau investigate the killing of a woman and her three-year-old daughter in their home. One suspect, the husband, is quickly written off as he was in a motel entertaining the wife of his boss. But his brother is another matter. By the author of Little Big Man.
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Simon and Schuster
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[1973]
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English
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A bizarre sex role reversal novel in the world of the future where feminism has run completely amuck. Boys are raised to be passive and girls are raised to be tough, mean, and aggressive. The women of this world have taken on the superficial characteristics of men. They are parodies of men as the men are of women. They must use dildos on their boy-slaves in order to luxuriate in their absolute domination of them. Sex is presented as power. The main...
10) Reinhart's women
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Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
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[1981]
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English
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Thomas Berger's modern hero Carlo Reinhart is thrust into the strangest chapter of his life yet Carlo Reinhart's life has taken many turns. From his idealistic youth in Crazy in Berlin, to his entrance into adulthood in Reinhart in Love, through his uneasy tumble into middle age in Vital Parts, Reinhart has never lost his philosophical and even-minded disposition. Reinhart's Women finds Reinhart divorced and living with his daughter, Winona,...
11) Nowhere
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Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
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[1985]
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English
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Self-proclaimed playwright and investigator Russel Wren is recruited to investigate the Sebastiani Liberation Front, a terrorist group from a principality nestled between Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia and run by buffoonish, gluttonous monarch.
13) Being invisible
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Little, Brown
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[1987]
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English
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Would-be novelist Fred Wagner has troubles. Tobegin with, he's stuck in a job with no future, writing smallparagraphs of hype for mail-order catalogues. Then his wife walks outon him, and his shrewish sister writes to him regularly to remind himwhat a failure he is--just in case he ever forgets. One day, while standing naked in front of a mirror, Fred slowlydisappears. He's still standing there, but there's no reflection inthe mirror. With practice...
14) Little big man
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English
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Fictional reminiscences of an 111-year-old man telling of his checkered career as plainsman, Indian scout, and squaw man and of his colorful acquaintances.
16) Orrie's story
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Little, Brown
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[1990]
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English
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Thomas Berger puts his signature spin on the Greek myth ORESTEIA in this brilliant story set in small-town America.
When Augie leaves to join the army, it's the first time his family sees him as anything but a waste of space. Not too worried about the kids and fairly certain his wife is having an affair, Augie pulls up his bootstraps and enlists.
Years later, Augie returns a war hero. With his pictures on the wall at the local bar and medals adorning...
17) The feud
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Delacorte Press/S. Lawrence
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[1983]
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English
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In The feud Thomas Berger returns to the era and milieu that he knows best -- small-town America in the 1930s. The feud chronicles encounters, hostile and amorous, between members of the Bellers of Hornbeck and Bullards of Millville. The trouble begins when Dolf Beller, on an innocent mission for paint remover, chews an unlit cigar in Bud Bullard's hardware store, where no smoking is allowed. Within 24 hours the store burns down. Dolf's car blows...
18) Robert Crews
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Wm. Morrow
Pub. Date
[1994]
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English
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From the author of Little Big Man comes a modern retelling of Robinson Crusoe that is an introspective look at the human condition only Thomas Berger could deliver.
On a fishing expedition with one friend he can barely tolerate and two other men he barely knows, Robert Crews is content to spend the entirety of the flight in the alcoholic haze he's all too familiar with. But when the turbulence becomes something more, it's clear that something is...