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Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Coe, Jonathan Hardback Book
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- Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
- ISBN
- 033035048X
- EAN
- 9780330350488
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- Hardback
- Binding
- Hardback
- Date of Publication
- 20040604
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- Release Title
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- Coe, Jonathan
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- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Like a Fiery Elephant: the Story of B. S. Johnson
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Literature
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 798g
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous -- not to say notorious -- both for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice. His innovations included a book with holes cut through the pages, and a novel published in a box so its unbound chapters could be read in any order. But in November 1973 Johnson's lifelong depression got the better of him, and he was found dead at his north London home. He had taken his own life at the age of forty. Since then, a kind of myth has grown up around the figure of B. S. Johnson, whose personality was as large and energetic as that of his hero and namesake, Samuel. Jonathan Coe's long-awaited biography is based upon unique access to the vast collection of papers Johnson left behind after his death, and upon dozens of interviews with those who knew him best. As unconventional in form as one of its subject's own novels, it paints a remarkable picture -- sometimes hilarious, often overwhelmingly sad -- of a tortured personality; a man whose writing, in spite of its fierce commitment to truth and honesty, tragically failed to keep at bay the demons that pursued him.
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Pan Macmillan
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9780330350488
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Book Title
Like a Fiery Elephant: the Story of B. S. Johnson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
480 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
798g
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