With an introduction by the writer Toby Litt.

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and haunted by a failed love affair, he begins to question what he wants to achieve. Using a number of original narrative techniques Johnson attempts to reproduce life (and its travails) as closely as possible through fiction, while at the same time revelling in the impossibility of such a task.

A passionate advocate for the avant-garde, B S Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he 'really discovered what he should be doing'. And on page 163 of this extraordinary book is one of the most surprising lines in English fiction. But you should start at the beginning.

'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. His work includes Travelling People, Albert Angelo and House Mother Normal. 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 *



Book Information
ISBN 9781447200376
Author B S Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 160g
Dimensions(mm) 129mm * 197mm * 12mm