The Elected Member

by Bernice Rubens

Overview

In this 1970 Booker Prize-winning novel, Norman is the clever one of a closely-knit Jewish family in London's East End. Infant prodigy, brilliant barrister, the apple of his parents' eyes—until at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349130224
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	07/01/1991
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Bernice Rubens was born is Wales and worked as both a writer and a film maker. She is the winner of the Booker Prize for The Elected Member, and was shortlisted for the same prize for a subsequent novel: A Five Year Sentence. She died in 2004.

Editorial Reviews

She has a large compassion, and an intelligence which makes her compulsively readable.—NEW STATESMAN

Splendidly sane, compassionate and often grotesquely funny.—DAILY TELEGRAPH

The writing sparkles and flickers and blazes.—JEWISH CHRONICLE

The novel moves from intense emotion to humour and pathos to the frightening realisation that those who are surrounded by the insane quickly become insane themselves. Read it.—DARTS

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