Albert Angelo
- ISBN-10
- 0811210030
- ISBN-13
- 9780811210034
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing
- Author
- Bryan Stanley Johnson
Description
A failed love affair, the failure to find work as an architect, and the difficulties of substitute teaching cause Albert Angelo to reexamine his life
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