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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. 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 kneContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Everything gets worse
Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson by Jonathan Coe 476pp, Picador, £20 Jonathan Coe has produced a lively, important and very thorough biography of a man who once loomed large on London's literary horizon - a writer who inspired some, irr ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 400 Pages
- ISBN-10: 033035048X
- ISBN-13: 9780330350488
- Publisher: Pan MacMillan
- Pub date: May 31, 2004
- Also available as: Paperback
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| 9780330350488 | Hardcover | $32.20 | -- | The Book Depository |
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John Mcghee 
The man who hated stories
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson by Jonathan Coe Picador £20, pp476 The trouble with literary biographies is that - as someone far cleverer than me once put it - even after a writer has been 'traced down to the last munched bath bun', ... (read full critics)