Albert Angelo

By B.S. Johnson,

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Why don't you take a permanent job, Albert? You're twenty-eight now, you know," his mother remarks when he goes on his weekend duty visit home. Albert Angelo is by vocation an architect and only by economic necessity working as a substitute teacher. He had thought he was, if not dedicated,…

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BS Johnson was a brilliant London writer who broke conventional writing apart. Albert Angelo is a powerful account of teaching in a hard Islington school in the mid-1960s.

It is also an audacious experiment in form, as narrative voices break apart and unravel, but always anchored in a London that feels both very close and very different.  

From Tom's list on revisiting lost London.

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