Run, brother, run A memoir of murder in my family
Record details
- ISBN: 9781480515758
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Physical Description:
sound recording
sound disc
7 sound discs (800 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. - Publisher: Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, p2013
Content descriptions
General Note: | Unabridged. |
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Subject: | Radio broadcasters -- United States -- Biography Berg, David -- 1942- -- Family Radio broadcasters -- Death |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Terrace Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Terrace Public Library | B-CD 364.1523 BER (Text) | 35151000500595 | Adult Non-fiction Audio Book | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A memoir of a wild boyhood in Texas that led to the murder of the author's brother, in 1968, shares details about the author's striving Jewish family that perhaps set Alan on a course for self-destruction, and the miscarriage of justice when the murdererwent unpunished. - Brilliance Audio
As William Faulkner said, âThe past is not dead, itâs not even past.â This observation seems especially true in matters of family, when the fury between generations is often never resolved and instead secretly carried, a wound that cannot heal. For David Berg, this is truer than for most, and once you listen to the story of his family, you will understand why he held it privately for so long and why the betrayals between parent and child can be the most wrenching of all.
In 1968 David Bergâs brother, Alan, was murdered by Charles Harrelson, a notorious hit man and father of actor Woody Harrelson. Alan was only thirty-one when he disappeared; six months later his remains were found in a ditch in Texas.
Run, Brother, Run is Bergâs story of the murder. But it is also his account of the psychic destruction of the Berg family by the authorâs father, who allowed a grievous blunder at the age of twenty-three to define his life. The event changed the fate of a clan and fell most heavily on Alan, the firstborn son, who tried to both redeem and escape his father yet could not.
This achingly painful family history is also a portrait of an iconic American place, playing out in the shady bars of Houston, in small-town law offices and courtrooms, and in remote ranch lands where bad things happenâa true-crime murder drama, all perfectly calibrated. Writing with cold-eyed grief and a wild, lacerating humor, Berg tells us first about the striving Jewish family that created Alan Berg and set him on a course for self-destruction and then about the gross miscarriage of justice that followed.
As with the best and most powerfully written memoirs, the author has kept this horrific story to himself for a long time. A scrappy and pugnacious narrator, Berg takes his account into the darkest human behaviors: the epic battles between father and son, marital destruction, reckless gambling, crooked legal practices, extortion, and, of course, cold-blooded murder. Run, Brother, Run is a raw, furious, bawdy, and scathing testimonial about love, hate, and painâand utterly unforgettable.