Albert Angelo Debut a band of earthily realistic

a band of earthily realistic fairies

In a prison in occupied France one in every ten men is to be shot

and the possible theft of a priceless edition of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

and kill if necessary

and her cry of raw outrage at the murder of her family rapidly develops into something very unexpected

Albert Angelo Debut a band of earthily realisticIn his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best known novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant garde, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his unique ways of putting them into practice. Johnson said of the acerbically comic and exuberant Albert Angelo that it was where he really discovered what he should be doing. On page 163 of this extraordinary book is one