Berger’s “improvements” to great novels and plays is known as the “Confusion” and has come to be regarded as a lesson in why such experiments should generally be avoided. The first clue Mr. Gedeon had that something was amiss was when he passed the Liverpool Playhouse on his way to catch the trai...
Not only was the Scarborough PD all over it; so were the Maine State Police’s Major Crimes Unit and the FBI, which had immediately sent agents not just from its field office in Boston but from New York too. The house and its environs had been locked down from the instant the first patrol car arri...
But as he watched Nurd and Samuel hug, and heard them begin to chatter at high speed about all that had happened since last they had met, and saw a big, sloppy tear drop from one of Nurd’s eyes, slide down his face, and perform a little jump into the air from the end of his chin, Wormwood thought...