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  1. It is the metafictional account of a disaffected young man, Christie Malry, who applies the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to his own life, "crediting" himself against society in an increasingly violent manner for perceived "debits".

    • B. S. Johnson
    • 1973
  2. Sep 12, 2018 · B. S. Johnson’s Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1973) is the story of Christie Malry, who, while working for a bank, learns the practice of double-entry bookkeeping. Feeling oppressed by an inhu...

    • Eric Meljac
    • 2019
  3. Having established this system, and growing progressively angry at society, Malry graduates from minor acts of personal revenge (mostly vandalism) to large-scale terrorism: bombing...

  4. Accountancy is the key, as he becomes quite enthralled by the Double-Entry system. Give and take, debit and credit -- or aggravation and recompense, as he defines it for his own purposes. It leads to Christie Malry's Great Idea: an accounting of his life. He starts keeping book.

    • B.S.Johnson
    • Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry
    • Novel
    • 1973
  5. Jun 29, 2023 · 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...

    • reprint
    • B S Johnson
    • Pan Macmillan, 2023
  6. Aug 6, 2002 · Malry uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to 'settle' these accounts against the world. One can guess why distributors have steered clear of Paul Tickell's dark satire for so...

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  8. Christie is a simple man. His job in a bank puts him next to but not in possession of money. He encounters the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping and adapts them in his own dramatic fashion to settle his account with society.

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