The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.

had been an infantry officer on the western front during the First World War. His recent novels include To the Wedding a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis stemming from his own familial experience and King: A Street Story a novel on homeless and shantytown life told from the perspective of a street dog. Berger O.

John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic novelist painter and poet. His novel G.