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Albert Angeloby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0811210030 (0-8112-1003-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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All Bull: The National Servicemenby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0704310023 (0-7043-1002-3)
Softcover, Quartet Books, Limited
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Aren't You Rather Young to Be Writing Your Memoirsby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0091181410 (0-09-118141-0)
Softcover, Hutchinson
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B.S. Johnson Omnibusby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0330353322 (0-330-35332-2)
Hardcover, Picador
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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entryby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0330484826 (0-330-48482-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry'Book summary:Beautifully constructed, funny and poignant, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is regarded as B.S. Johnson's most humorous book but it is a dark, sly humour predicated on the distaste Johnson had for an oppressive post-war British society (an oppression he delineates brilliantly in The Unfortunates).
Christie is, we are told, a simple man, who works in a bank alongside, but excluded from, money. He moves from the bank to learn Double-Entry Bookkeeping in a firm called Tappers, where his disillusionment deepens leading to his Great Idea: he decides to use the principles of Double-Entry (an Aggravation column for offences caused to him, a Recompense column detailing his revenge) to settle his accounts with society.
Johnson (1933-1973), a forgotten hero of the British avant-garde of the 1960s and 70s (he committed suicide when he was not yet 40), wrote seven wonderful novels that echo Joyce and Beckett in their intelligence, inventiveness and genius for language. The books, full of the kind of typographical innovations so beloved of the concrete poets, have been largely ignored since Johnson killed himself but more than deserve to be looked at again; writers as skilled as Johnson are very few and far between indeed. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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- Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0811209547 (0-8112-0954-7)
Softcover, New Directions - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0704311828 (0-7043-1182-8)
Softcover, Quartet Books, Limited - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0002211319 (0-00-221131-9)
Hardcover, Collins - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0670220132 (0-670-22013-2)
Hardcover, Viking Press - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0811209539 (0-8112-0953-9)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0330484826 (0-330-48482-6)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
- Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry: ISBN 0811209547 (0-8112-0954-7)
The Evacueesby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0575000988 (0-575-00098-8)
Hardcover, Gollancz
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Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B. S. Johnsonby Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B.S. JohnsonISBN 0140421815 (0-14-042181-5)
Hardcover, Penguin
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House Mother Normalby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0811209814 (0-8112-0981-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House Mother Normal'Book summary:BS Johnson's fifth novel, subtitled "A Geriatric Comedy", is inventive, unique and wonderfully humane. Like the rest of his hugely important and criminally overlooked work this is as funny and as profound a book as any you are ever likely to read. Consisting of eight 21-page monologues by each of the named inhabitants of an old people's home, and a final piece by the House Mother herself, Johnson, without any hint of sentimentality, draws out an evening scene in which each of the NERs (no effective relatives) suffers at the hands of the House Mother. Before the start of each monologue a CQ score is given (marking a regularly used test for senile dementia: out of 10 simple questions, such as where are you now? what day is this? the 10 answers represent compos mentis on a sliding scale to infirmity). This enables Johnson, through his usual playful use of language and typography, to represent in his writing the almost incommunicable. The old people suffer, some can barely speak, others are dominated, obsessed with particular memories that mark important failures or accomplishments, moments which resonate now daily life is so dull.
Johnson is in the company of Beckett here, able to use language itself to show up what language's limitations do to our ability to communicate, and how they form/inform his writing about that inability. Focusing on old age, its degradations and disintegrations, House Mother Normal manages to be both profound and touching. For an avant garde novel to accomplish this and yet be hugely readable, entertaining and very funny is testament to the huge skills of one of the finest writers England has recently produced. --Mark Thwaite [via]
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House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedyby B.S. JohnsonISBN 070431049X (0-7043-1049-X)
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House Mother Normal:a Geriatric Comedy: A Geriatric Comedyby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0002213249 (0-00-221324-9)
Hardcover, Collins
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Russian Word Formationby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0080133509 (0-08-013350-9)
Hardcover, Pergamon Press
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See the Old Lady Decentlyby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0091237300 (0-09-123730-0)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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Trawlby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0586024875 (0-586-02487-5)
Hardcover, Random House
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Unfortunatesby B.S. JohnsonISBN 0330353292 (0-330-35329-2)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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You Always Remember the First Timeby Michael Bakewell, Giles Gordon, B.S. JohnsonISBN 0704320940 (0-7043-2094-0)
Hardcover, Quartet Books
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