<div>The legendary Jack Crabb takes another riotous romp through the Old West in an acclaimed novel that&rsquo;s &ldquo;impressive and delightful . . . very Mark Twain&rdquo; (Daily News, New York). Jack Crabb is now 112 years old, and he isn&rsquo;t done spinning yarns. In this sequel to Berger&rsquo;s beloved novel Little Big Man, one of literature&rsquo;s wiliest survivors continues his breathtaking tall tales of the Old West.Crabb claims to have witnessed most of the great historical events of the western frontier: hiding behind a wagon after a drunken Doc Holliday provokes the shootout at the OK Corral; joining Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley on tour with their international Wild West show; even taking tea with Queen Victoria when she came out of seclusion after a quarter century. No matter where Crabb lays his hat, he keeps his wizened, wry, and sharp commentary at the ready. The Return of Little Big Man is a sidesplitting novel of surprising emotional depth. This ebook features an all-new introduction by Thomas Berger, as well as an illustrated biography of the author including rare images and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection. </div>

The Return of Little Big Man

<div>Thomas Berger&rsquo;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 an idealistic Jew named Nathan Schild, Reinhart&rsquo;s turmoil grows more acute. Schild works for both the Americans and the Russians, and he becomes a flashpoint for Reinhart&rsquo;s anguish over the world&rsquo;s vast contradictions. When Schild&rsquo;s escapades lead to a powerful turning point, Reinhart is forced to come to terms with life&rsquo;s ambiguities as well as with his own evolving identity. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Crazy in Berlin

<div>A &ldquo;splendid&rdquo; and witty take on the Arthurian legend by the acclaimed author of Little Big Man (The New York Times Book Review). 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&rsquo;s medieval England, the damsel in distress is never what she appears to be. Merlin is a wizard of a completely different stripe. Classic heroes and villains are vividly reimagined, breathing fresh life into a familiar story. Powerful, emotional, and at times laugh-out-loud funny, Arthur Rex is an unforgettable tribute to one of the most celebrated tales of all time. This ebook features an all-new introduction by Thomas Berger, as well as an illustrated biography of the author including rare images and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection. </div>

Arthur Rex

<div>Detective Russel Wren takes a case in what just might be the oddest country on earth A phone call warning of a bomb threat is all Detective Russel Wren needs to get out the door. He makes it to the next block before an enormous explosion destroys his entire building. Without his Manhattan office, Wren finds himself forced to accept a strange mission to the tiny central European nation of Saint Sebastian. Saint Sebastian is unlike any country Wren has ever seen, and as his stay there continues, its oddities merely multiply: blond-haired citizens are consigned to the underclass; rudeness is a capital crime; and the Ministry of Clams is the go-to for any problem that can&rsquo;t be solved by the Ministries of Hoaxes, Disaffection, Irony, or Allergies. No matter where Wren finds himself, he stumbles upon something puzzling, hilarious, and extraordinary&mdash;all leading up to a stunning turn of events. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Nowhere

<div>Fred Wagner thought his newfound ability would bring big opportunities, but some special powers aren&rsquo;t as useful as they appear to be Advertising copywriter Fred Wagner lives a mundane existence, dreaming of being a novelist but making scant progress on his first literary effort. His career has stalled and his personal life is falling to pieces, but everything seems poised to change when, one day, Fred realizes he can will himself in and out of visibility. A world of possibilities seems finally within reach&mdash;that is, until Fred learns that invisibility isn&rsquo;t the panacea he hoped it would be. Filled with humor and pathos, Being Invisible perceptively examines the life of a struggling writer and the power each of us has to change our own lives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Being Invisible

<div>A dozen remarkable short stories from the author of Little Big Man, offering an absurdist journey through the mind of one of America&rsquo;s great storytellersThomas Berger&rsquo;s first short story collection in almost thirty years showcases the author&rsquo;s acclaimed wit, intellect, and emotional sureness. His pages teem with larger-than-life characters: Dr. Poon, a Hollywood snake handler in way over his head during a film shoot in Southeast Asia; Charlie, an apartment superintendent who finds a peculiarly powerful plastic pistol; and Vernon, the confused owner of a talking puppy. No matter where Berger takes his readers, his world is full of oddities. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Abnormal Occurrences

<div>Thomas Berger&rsquo;s modern hero Carlo Reinhart is thrust into the strangest chapter of his life yet Carlo Reinhart&rsquo;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&rsquo;s Women finds Reinhart divorced and living with his daughter, Winona, a successful model. His newest hobby is cooking, and he has become surprisingly accomplished for an amateur. But when he asks a woman over for a homemade lunch, Reinhart&rsquo;s idyll is shattered. Adventures and misadventures conspire to put his nascent cooking skills to the test&mdash;and turn him into a postmodern celebrity. With Reinhart, Berger has created one of the great comic characters of the twentieth century&mdash;a man who beautifully represents, and parodies, his moment. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Thomas Berger including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Reinhart's Women

<div>A bitterly comic novel of middle-aged angst and middle-class American life in the 1960s, by the acclaimed author of Little Big Man It is the late sixties in suburbia, and Carlo Reinhart&rsquo;s life is a mess. He&rsquo;s fat, broke, middle aged, and unemployed. His anarchist son hates him, and his wife has taken a younger lover and thrown Carlo out of the house. In fact, the only one who doesn&rsquo;t consider him contemptible and ridiculous seems to be Carlo&rsquo;s adoring, overweight daughter, who is almost as pathetic as he is. Even his affair with a twenty-two-year-old nymphomaniac is strangely unsatisfying. Then, just as he&rsquo;s reaching his lowest point, the self-styled Ultimate Human Irrelevancy is offered a golden opportunity to grab a piece of the American Dream, thanks to the reappearance of his old school chum Bob Sweet. Bob, who has a gift for success, is inviting Reinhart to get in on the ground floor of his latest venture: cryonics. But while Carlo loves the taste of the good life that his friend has suddenly provided, he&rsquo;s not quite certain whether Sweet wants him as a partner . . . or as a human popsicle. The third novel in Thomas Berger&rsquo;s acclaimed Carlo Reinhart Series, Vital Parts is a stingingly hilarious swipe at twentieth-century culture and mores. Unrestrained and unapologetic, it is a tour de force from a master satirist that stands alongside Joseph Heller&rsquo;s Catch-22, John Kennedy Toole&rsquo;s A Confederacy of Dunces, and the novels of Kurt Vonnegut as a trenchant and funny comment on American life. </div>

Vital Parts

<div>From kidnapped child to Cheyenne brave to General Custer&rsquo;s aide, no hero in the West had such a time as Little Big Man Jack Crabb sits in his nursing home, 111 years old and ready to spin a yarn. He&rsquo;s the last surviving western hero, a frontier original with a knack for stumbling into history. After his family was killed in a raid, Crabb was raised as an Indian, learning to ride, hunt, fight, and kill like the proudest of Cheyenne warriors. For the rest of his life, he slipped back and forth between the worlds of the Cheyenne and the white men, watching 1 half of his people extinguish the other, bit by bit. From the moment he 1st learned to notch a bow to the bloody day known as Custer&rsquo;s Last Stand, Little Big Man lived the wildest life in the Wild West. An utterly original novel, Little Big Man is considered one of the funniest Westerns ever written and a classic of American literature. </div>

Little Big Man

<div>A novel of alternate realities from the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;nominated author: &ldquo;Those willing to spend a few hours in his Twilight Zone will come away the richer&rdquo; (Library Journal). With a loving wife and son, a successful job as chief copy-editor, and a schedule all his own, Walter Hunsicker is happy with his existence. But into each life some rain must fall. Taking shelter from a heavy storm with a stranger, Walter confesses there are small things he wouldn&rsquo;t mind changing about himself. He&rsquo;d like more money, a little less monotony, and maybe a new name. Something like Jack Kellog. The stranger, possessing a power unfathomable to Walter, eagerly makes his wish a reality. Walter doesn&rsquo;t walk back into the rain, but into another life. As rich, womanizing, slumlord Jack Kellog, he shocks himself so much that he tracks the stranger down and asks for his life back before the day&rsquo;s through. But once the stranger agrees to end his experiment, Hunsicker returns home to devastating news. His son has AIDS, and is beyond treatment. Desperate to spare his family and himself this cruel fate, Walter leaps into new lives. Comedian, writer, radio psychologist: Are any of the new Jack Kellogs enough to escape Walter Hunsicker&rsquo;s grief?</div>

Changing the Past

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;nominated author of Little Big Man proves that sometimes war doesn&rsquo;t change a person, but the world he lives in. Carlo Reinhart returns home from his service in Germany expecting the Ohio he left not too long ago. What he finds instead is new technology, old attitudes, and people he&rsquo;s not sure he can relate to anymore. As Reinhart stumbles back into life as a civilian, he finds camaraderie in the most unlikely places. A former classmate, Splendor Mainwaring, a man too smart for his lot in life as a mechanic, becomes a new and eccentric friend. His boss isn&rsquo;t just the most over-eager real estate agent in town; he&rsquo;s also a seasoned con man. Not even settling down comes easy to the gentle Reinhart. Duping him into marriage, his new wife Genevieve Raven is a force to be reckoned with. Endlessly surprising, this funny, sharp-edged narrative is Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist Thomas Berger at his very best. With an over the top cast of characters, it&rsquo;s impossible not to fall in love with the exact people that make Reinhart&rsquo;s life impossible. &ldquo;Picture Fielding&rsquo;s Tom Jones in a 20th century landscape and you&rsquo;ll have some idea of Reinhart in Love.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times</div>

Reinhart in Love

<div>The Pulitzer Prize&ndash;nominated author of Little Big Man returns with perhaps one of his most imaginative alternate realities yet: a matriarchal society. Women reign supreme in the not-so-distant future, where Georgie Cornell has no choice but to wear the high heel shoe on the other foot. Swept into the chaotic world of publishing, he is at the mercy of his female bosses, especially if his pencil skirt is an inch too short. Georgie only has one male coworker he can lean on for a bit of support, and his friend Charlie&rsquo;s fascination with gender roles borders on the scandalous for Georgie&rsquo;s taste. Still, when Georgie loses his job it&rsquo;s Charlie he turns to for comfort. Spilling a drink on his expensive dress, he has no choice but to wear the women&rsquo;s clothes Charlie keeps in secret on the way home. The simple journey quickly turns chaotic when Georgie is taken in by the police for the crime of being a transvestite. A prison escape is only the start of this piercing, insightful, and prescient look at gender norms. &ldquo;Imagined with such ferocity and glee that we assent to it almost in spite of ourselves . . . A brilliant accomplishment by one of our best novelists.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

Regiment of Women

<div>The author of the Pulitzer Prize&ndash;finalist The Feud blurs reality in this breakneck thriller following one man&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 . . . Richie&rsquo;s car is stalled just at the bottom of the hill and he needs a push start. John agrees to help and then accepts a ride, though he&rsquo;s not entire sure why. After stepping into Richie&rsquo;s car, John is driven far away from the reality he once knew and dragged into Richie&rsquo;s frightening world&mdash;one event at a time. To make matters worse, the longer he spends in Richie&rsquo;s company the harder it is for the people around him to distinguish John from this curly-haired devil in a baseball cap. John must put an end to Richie&rsquo;s mad and murderous adventure before it reaches the most terrifying place of all&mdash;John&rsquo;s very own home. &ldquo;The plot gets nicely complicated . . . and the entire contraption claps together in a great, unpredictable, satisfying calamity.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review &ldquo;Spare, meticulous prose . . . Sharply evocative of human weakness and rage.&rdquo; &mdash;The Washington Post</div>

Thomas Berger

Books By Thomas Berger (13 Books)