The author’s second book, playing in Sternean style with literary form (‘telling stories is telling lies’), with windows cut into several pages allowing the reader a preview of the following text. Johnson plays with the narration, switching from third to second person, and includes at the end a few pages of authorial exegesis on what he was trying to achieve.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell’s Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell’s Complete Works published 1997-8.
A very good copy, dust jacket a bit browned and tear to back wrapper repaired verso with sellotape. Former owner’s inscription to ffep.
