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Often described as a satire or parody of the western genre, the book is a modern example of picaresque fiction. Berger made use of a large volume of overlooked first-person primary materials, such as diaries, letters, and memoirs, to fashion a wide-ranging and entertaining tale that comments on alienation, identity, and perceptions of reality. [2]
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In a 1980 newspaper interview, Berger said of Neighbors, "As my 10th novel, begun at the close of my 20th year as a published novelist, it is appropriately a bizarre celebration of whatever gift I have, the strangest of all my narratives . . . the morality of this work, like that of all my other volumes, will be in doubt until the end of the ...
The awards are voted on by a committee of Chicago booksellers and Chicago Review of Books staff, and past winners have included authors such as Rebecca Makkai, Eve L. Ewing, Mikki Kendall, Erika L. Sánchez, and more. The Chicago Review of Books also introduced the Adam Morgan Literary Leadership Award to the annual awards ceremony in 2019 ...
Larry Schweikart recounted to Steve Bannon that the book had respectable sales for several years after publication, but rocketed up the best seller charts after being recommended by talk-show host Glenn Beck, hitting #1 on the New York Times and Amazon.com bestseller lists.
The novel was long listed for the Booker Prize. [3] [4] In a positive review in The New York Times, writer Leah Hager Cohen praises the novel's unconventional narrative.With the letters sent from A'ida to Xavier being suggested as not being in chronological order, with their contents possibly written in code and with certain parts of the letters being illegible; Cohen states that "Berger the ...
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 ...
Alan L. Berger (born November 16, 1939) is an American scholar, writer and professor of Judaic Studies and Holocaust studies at the Florida Atlantic University. He occupies the Raddock Eminent Scholar Chair in Holocaust Studies at Florida Atlantic University and is director of the Center for the Study of Values and Violence After Auschwitz.