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Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was first published in 1973 by William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd. It has since then been reprinted twice by New Directions, in 1985 and 2009 respectively. A 2001 edition with a foreword by John Lanchester was published by Pan Macmillan (Picador (imprint)).
- B. S. Johnson
- 1973
Jan 1, 2001 · B.S. Johnson was one of Britain's most original writers and Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry is his funniest book.
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Dec 1, 2007 · B.S. Johnson's controversial novel of 1973, ‘Christie Malry's own double entry’, is studied in detail in the article which follows. The book outlines the frustrations of Christie Malry, a bank clerk and subsequently, accounts clerk, in facing up to the irritations and unfairnesses of everyday life at work and at home, including the ...
- Sam McKinstry
- 2007
Jun 7, 2020 · Despite being an absurd and horrifying black comedy, Johnson is no less precise in his writing in Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry than in the excruciating evocation of loss in his book-in-a-box. Indeed, much of the humour of the novel is dependent on Johnson’s ability to seamlessly intersperse the text with clauses, sentences and sections that break down the text’s artifice.
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...
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- B S Johnson
- Pan Macmillan, 2023
B. S. Johnson: Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry. This is a wicked book and I mean that in a thoroughly positive sense. Christie Malry starts his career as a bank clerk because he wants to be near the money.
Christie Malry, being a "simple man", above all longs for sex and money. In order to understand how money works, he takes a job in a London bank. This leads him to enroll in a bookkeeping...
