Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

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2013
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Christie 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 grievances: 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.
Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in B.S. Johnson's lifetime, is undoubtedly his funniest.

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Christie 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 grievances: 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.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, the last novel to be published in B.S. Johnson's lifetime, is undoubtedly his funniest.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: New Edit/Cover
Publisher: Picador
Published: 14 Feb 2013
ISBN 10: 1447200357
ISBN 13: 9781447200352
Book Overview: 'Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece' Auberon Waugh

Media Reviews

Delightful to read, highly amusing, and clever -- Daily Telegraph
Johnson has undoubtedly written a masterpiece -- Auberon Waugh
The most accessible, exuberant and despairing of all his works -- John Lanchester

Author Bio

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.