Fetch the Scissors
Colin Burrow: B.S. Johnson, 11 April 2013
Well Done God! Selected Prose and Drama of B.S. Johnson
edited by Jonathan Coe, Philip Tew and Julia Jordan.
Picador, 471 pp., £25, February 2013,978 1 4472 2710 6 Show More
edited by Jonathan Coe, Philip Tew and Julia Jordan.
Picador, 471 pp., £25, February 2013,
Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry
by B.S. Johnson.
Picador, 187 pp., £12.99, February 2013,978 1 4472 0035 2 Show More
by B.S. Johnson.
Picador, 187 pp., £12.99, February 2013,
House Mother Normal
by B.S. Johnson.
Picador, 204 pp., £12.99, February 2013,978 1 4472 0038 3 Show More
by B.S. Johnson.
Picador, 204 pp., £12.99, February 2013,
“... or disappointment are not far away. The mood of these scenes is often curiously similar to that of Philip Larkin’s novels from two decades before, with their mingling of beery male intimacy, social unease and sexual anxiety. Jill Has Sex, with Metafiction (the comma is here, as always, important) might sum up the bad side of B.S. Johnson’s work from this ... ”
