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Like a fiery elephant : the story of B.S. Johnson / Jonathan Coe.

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Van Pelt Library PR6060.O3 Z64 2005
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Coe, Jonathan.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973.
Johnson, B. S.
Novelists, English--20th century--Biography.
Novelists, English.
Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
Experimental fiction, English.
Genre:
Biographies.
Physical Description:
486 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Continuum, 2005.
Summary:
The most critically acclaimed literary biography published in the UK in 2004, tells the story of B.S. Johnson, one of Britain's most innovative, passionate, and controversial writers of the 1960s and 70s, an unflinching advocate for the avant-garde who worked firmly in the tradition of Joyce and Beckett.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Picador, 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-474) and index.
ISBN:
0826417353
OCLC:
57625618

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