Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry - Couverture souple

Johnson, B S

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811209547 ISBN 13 : 9780811209540

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1986

Synopsis

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 discovered the principles of double-entry book keeping, 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 propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (1933-1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker. He was born into a working-class family, was evacuated from London during World War II, and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. After he graduated Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was released in 2000. Increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811209547
• ISBN 13: 9780811209540
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible