
Albert Angelo
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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)...
Details
192 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
A most gifted writerSamuel Beckett
The future of the novel depends on people like B. S. JohnsonAnthony Burgess
Albert Angelo has moments of comedy as good as anything produced in the past fifty yearsGuardian