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Like a Fiery Elephant - The Story of B. S. Johnson (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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Like a Fiery Elephant - The Story of B. S. Johnson (Paperback, Unabridged edition)
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The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his
fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief
in the avant-garde. 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. 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. 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 tragically failed to keep at bay
the demons that pursued him.
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