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'A most gifted writer' Samuel Beckett

About the Author

In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.

Reviews

A most gifted writer
*Samuel Beckett*

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

Albert Angelo has moments of comedy as good as anything produced in the past fifty years
*Guardian*