Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Literature & Fiction

JOHNSON, B.S.

Action & Adventure

Collins

Libro usado en buenas condiciones, por su antiguedad podria contener señales normales de uso

Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs?

Hutchinson

Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B. S. Johnson (Penguin modern poets ; 25)

Ewart, Gavin

GHOSE, Zulfikar

Penguin

Christie Malry is a simple person. Born into a family without money, he realised early along in the game that the best way to come by money was to place himself next to it. So he took a job as a very junior bank clerk in a very stuffy bank. It was at the bank that Christie discovered the principles of double-entry book keeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea. For every offence Christy henceforth received at the hands of a society with which he was clearly out of step, a debit must be noted; after which, society would have to be paid back appropriately, so that the paper credit would accrue to Christy`s account. Now made into a film starring Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame. Acerbic yet funny, this is a novel which, even as it provokes laughter, will alarm and disturb as well. `A most gifted writer` - Samuel Beckett. `The future of the novel depends on people like B.S. Johnson` - Anthony Burgess. `Mr. Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece. ` - Auberon Waugh. `Delightful to read, highly amusing, and clever. ` - " Daily Telegraph. "

Humor & Satire

Picador

Cartoons satirize the efforts of young single women and men to cope with the problems of life in contemporary society

Hello Carol

Comics & Graphic Novels

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, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry , the last novel to be published in his lifetime, is his funniest.\nChristie Malry is a simple man. As a young accounts clerk at a confectionery factory in London he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping. Frustrated by the petty injustices that beset his life – particularly those caused by the behaviour of authority figures – he determines a unique way to settle his a system of moral double-entry bookkeeping. So, for every offence society commits against him, Christie exacts recompense. ‘ Every Debit must have its Credit, the First Golden Rule ’ of the system. All accounts are to be settled, and they are – in the most alarming way.

Literary

Viking Adult

See the Old Lady Decently

Employing the principles of double-entry bookkeeping, a frustrated bank clerk devises a unique system for righting the wrongs imposed on him by society

New Directions

A disaffected young man, Christie Malry, is a simple man who learns the principles of double-entry book-keeping while taking an evening class in accountancy and working in the local bank. He begins to apply these principles to his own life, revenging himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived 'debits'. Debit: the unpleasantness of the bank manager is the first on an ever-growing list; Credit: scratching the façade of the office block. All accounts are settled in the most alarming way. Christie Malry is a simple person. Born into a family without money, he realised early along in the game that the best way to come by money was to place himself next to it. So he took a job as a very junior bank clerk in a very stuffy bank. It was at the bank that Christie discovered the principles of double-entry book keeping, from which he evolved his Great Idea. For every offence Christy henceforth received at the hands of a society with which he was clearly out of step, a debit must be noted; after which, society would have to be paid back appropriately, so that the paper credit would accrue to Christy's account. Now made into a film starring Nick Moran of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels fame. Acerbic yet funny, this is a novel which, even as it provokes laughter, will alarm and disturb as well.

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy

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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Aren't you rather young to be writing your memoirs?

Gavin Ewart, Zulfikar Ghose, B. S. Johnson (Penguin modern poets ; 25)

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Hello Carol

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

See the Old Lady Decently

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

House Mother Normal: A Geriatric Comedy