The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Elected Member winning the Booker Prize, Abacus is reissuing Bernice Rubens's classic novel with a bold new cover.
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 *
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 | 9780349144344 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349144346 |
| Title | The Elected Member |
| Author | Bernice Rubens |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2020-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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