Berger, Thomas, 1924-2014
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- שכנים, תשמ"ז 1987:
- New York times (online), viewed July 22, 2014(in obituary published July 21: Thomas Berger; b. Thomas Louis Berger, July 20, 1924, Cincinnati; d. July 13, Nyack, N.Y., aged 89; lived in Grand View, Rockland County, N.Y.; reclusive and bitingly satirical novelist who explored the myths of the American West in Little big man and the mores of 20th-century middle-class society in a shelf of other well-received books)
Thomas Louis Berger (July 20, 1924 – July 13, 2014) was an American novelist. Probably best known for his picaresque novel Little Big Man and the subsequent film by Arthur Penn, Berger explored and manipulated many genres of fiction throughout his career, including the crime novel, the hard-boiled detective story, science fiction, the utopian novel, plus re-workings of classical mythology, Arthurian legend, and the survival adventure. Berger's biting wit led many reviewers to refer to him as a satirist or "comic" novelist, descriptions he preferred to reject. His admirers often bemoaned that his talent and achievement were underappreciated, in view of his versatility across many forms of fiction, his precise use of language, and his probing intelligence.
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