Moses Berger decides to write a history of the Gursky family and becomes obsessed with the evasive Solomon. He follows the family from Victorian London to the wastes of Canada and to the fleshpots of London and Oxford.
Moses Berger is very young when he first hears the name that will obsess him and drive him on a quest across Canada and Europe. His life becomes consumed with...
Now a 52-year-old alcoholic biographer, Berger is desperately trying to chronicle the stories of their lives, especially that of the mysterious Solomon Gursky, who may or may not have died in a plane crash.
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with its colourful bootlegging history, its bizarre connections with the North and...
Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession.