The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens

The 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel. Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes - until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.

She has a large compassion, and an intelligence which makes her compulsively readable* NEW STATESMAN *
Splendidly sane, compassionate and often grotesquely funny. * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
The writing sparkles and flickers and blazes. * JEWISH CHRONICLE *
The novel moves from intense emotion to humour and pathos to the frightening realisation that those who are surrounded by the insane quickly become insane themselves. Read it. * DARTS *

Bernice Rubens was born is Wales and worked as both a writer and a film maker. She is the winner of the Booker Prize for The Elected Member, and was shortlisted for the same prize for a subsequent novel: A Five Year Sentence. She died in 2004.

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ISBN 13	9780349130224
ISBN 10	0349130221
Title	The Elected Member
Author	Bernice Rubens
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1988-01-01
Number of pages	224
Prizes	Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1970
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