Regiment of Women

by Thomas Berger

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Once again, Thomas Berger brings a satiric and irreverent perspective to the human experience, evoking a world that most dare not even imagine and effectively dismantling all existing definitions of sex and gender.

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Thomas Berger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 20, 1924. During World War II, he enlisted in the Army and served in England and Germany as part of the Medical Corps. He received a baccalaureate degree with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 1948 and pursued graduate work in English at Columbia University until 1951. He worked as a show more librarian at the Tamiment Institute and Library in New York and as a summary writer for The New York Times Index. His first novel, Crazy in Berlin, was published in 1958. He wrote numerous books during his lifetime including Killing Time, Who Is Teddy Villanova?, Adventures of the Artificial Woman, Sneaky People, The Houseguest, Meeting Evil, Suspects, Best Friends, and The Feud. Several of his novels were adapted into films including Little Big Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Neighbors starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. He died on July 13, 2014 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Original publication date
1973
People/Characters
Georgie Cornell
Important places
Republic of Harlem; Maine/Eden
Epigraph
To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrarious to His revealed will and approved ordinances; and finally, ... (show all)it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

John Knox, The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, 1558
Dedication
To Zulfikar Ghose
First words
The dentist's drill of the alarm probed viciously into the diseased pulp of his dream and Georgie Cornell awakened.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Also, he was the one with the protuberant organ.
Original language
English

Classifications

Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.5Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-1999
LCC
PS3552 .E719 .R36Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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