B.S. Johnson

• May-1986
• / General Fiction
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A wild, experimental, polyphonic novel, recounting a typical day of diminishing returns at a nursing home House Mother Normal, subtitled “A Geriatric Comedy,” is the English writer B. S. Johnson’s fifth novel. Unusual in both its subject a...

• May-1987
• / General Fiction
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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 his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways ...

• Oct-1999
• / General Fiction
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A legendary 1960s experiment in form, The Unfortunates is B. S. Johnson s famous book in a box, in which the chapters are presented unbound, to be read in any order the reader chooses. A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, f...

• Jun-2001
• / Psychological Suspense
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Christie Malry is a simple person. Born into a family without money, he realised early along in the game that the best way to come by money was to place himself next to it. So he took a job as a very junior bank clerk in a very stuffy bank. It was at...

• Jun-2004
• / General Fiction
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Reissued for the first time in many years, and for the first time together, this omnibus contains B.S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels. ALBERT ANGELO (1964) was Johnson's second novel. The eponymous Albert is an architect by tra...

• Feb-2013
• / General Fiction
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A selection of B. S. Johnson's prose, collected for the first time, to celebrate the 80th anniversary of his birth B. S. Johnson is a truly unique British writer, a cult figure whose original and experimental fiction has, since his tragically...

• Feb-2018
• / Literary
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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 his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of ...