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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry B S Johnson

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry By B S Johnson

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B S Johnson


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Summary

B.S. Johnson's funniest and most accessible novel, reissued for the first time in 25 years with a foreword by John Lanchester.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry Summary

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B S Johnson

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 the bank that Christie discocered the principles of double-entry bookkeeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea. For every offence Christy henceforth received at the hands of a society with which he was clearly out of step, a debit must be noted; after which, society would have to be paid back appropriately, so that the paper credit would accrue to Christy's account.

Now made into a film starring Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame.

Acerbic yet funny, this is a novel which, even as it provokes laughter, will alarm and disturb as well.

'A most gifted writer' Samuel Beckett

'The future of the novel depends on people like B.S. Johnson' Anthony Burgess

'Mr. Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece' Auberon Waugh

'Delightful to read, highly amusing, and clever' Daily Telegraph

About B S Johnson

B. S. Johnson (1933-1973), an admirer of Joyce and Beckett, was a novelist whose works combine verbal inventiveness with typographical innovations. His works include Albert Angelo (1964), Trawl (1966), The Unfortunates (1969), House Mother Normal (1971) and Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973).

Additional information

GOR001254248
9780330484824
0330484826
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry by B S Johnson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
2001-05-25
192
N/A
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