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5.0 out of 5 stars
a minor classic by an experimental english writer,
By cwcam32@aol.com (england) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Albert Angelo (Hardcover)
Albert Angelo tells the story of an aspiring London architect in the 1960s who is forced to earn a living by teaching in rough inner-City schools. This was Johnson's second novel and he displays some of the experiments and techniques for which he is famous - splitting the page between the inner thoughts and spoken words of a character, for example. Towards the end of the book the author violently interrupts the narrative to explain the true facts behind the writing of the novel. B S Johnson was a working class Londoner who was a disciple of Joyce and Beckett. His novels are hard to obtain but there is a growing recognition of his work and a realisation that he was, in many ways, ahead of his time. Picador are about to re-issue one of his most interesting books "The Unfortunates" which is a seeries of loose leaf pamphlets in a box.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious,
By John Esther (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Albert Angelo (Hardcover)
One of the funniest books I have ever read. If you teach, you shoud hunt this novel down.
4.0 out of 5 stars
The funniest book I have ever read about pedagogy,
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This review is from: Albert Angelo (Hardcover)
A fantastic novel that had me constantly laughing out loud. Hilarious
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Miss Crossthwaite, Percy Circus, Cable Street, Wellclose Square, Worcester Park, Kings Cross, Beaker Folk, Christopher Arbor, City Road, Linda Taylor, Colebrooke Row, James Day, North End Road, North Wales, Vincent Terrace New!
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- The Swarming Streets: Twentieth-Century Literary Representations of London (Costerus NS 154) by Lawrence Phillips on 8 pages
- Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction (New Accents) by Patricia Waugh on 4 pages
- Real: The Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature by Herbert Grabes on page 296, and Back Matter
- Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, 2nd ed. by Michael J. Hoffman on page 369
- Sir Vidia's Shadow: A Friendship Across Five Continents by Paul Theroux on page 134
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