Reinhart's Women

by Thomas Berger

The Reinhart Series (4)

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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, a successful model. His newest hobby is show more cooking, and he has become surprisingly accomplished for an amateur. But when he asks a woman over for a homemade lunch, Reinhart's idyll is shattered. Adventures and misadventures conspire to put his nascent cooking skills to the test--and turn him into a postmodern celebrity. With Reinhart, Berger has created one of the great comic characters of the twentieth century--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's personal collection.   show less

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Carl Reinhart does some cooking and much blundering and pondering in this fourth novel in a series. I have no desire to read the others or spend more time with his dysfunctional family. This is considered literary fiction but the dialogue and characters didn't seem quite real.

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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
1981
People/Characters
Carlo Reinhart
Original language
English

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Genres
Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
LCC
PS3552 .E719 .R4Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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