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Albert Angelo Book

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Reissued as standalone books for the first time in many years, these are B. S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels. 'The future of the novel depends on people like B. S. Johnson' Anthony Burgess 'Laurence Sterne, more than anyone else, is Johnson's true literary ancestor ...Don't think that because Johnson took stylistic risks he must be unapproachable or elitist' Guardian 'B. S. Johnson is the ultimate forgotten author, born in 1933, dead at forty, beloved by critics, overlooked by the public ...[he was] at the forefront of the British avant-garde' Independent The eponymous Albert Angelo is an architect by training but a supply teacher through economic necessity, and as his character begins to question what he wants to achieve, Johnson attempts to reproduce the dissatisfactions and disappointments we experience as an inevitable part of life. 'Albert Angelo may be a bleak story but it has moments of comedy as good as anything produced in the past fifty years' GuardianRead More

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  • Foyles

    With an introduction by the writer Toby Litt.The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and haunted by a failed love affair, he begins to question what he wants to achieve. Using a number of original narrative techniques Johnson attempts to reproduce life (and its travails) as closely as possible through fiction, while at the same time revelling in the impossibility of such a task.A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, B S Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he 'really discovered what he should be doing'. And on page 163 of this extraordinary book is one of the most surprising lines in English fiction. But you should start at the beginning.

  • Blackwell

    'A most gifted writer' Samuel Beckett With an introduction by Toby Litt In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, he became famous for...

  • 1447200373
  • 9781447200376
  • B S Johnson
  • 14 February 2013
  • Picador
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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