The Elected Member
By Bernice Rubens
(Little, Brown Book Group, Paperback, 9780349130224, 224pp.)
Publication Date: March 2001
Categories: Family Life, Jewish
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Description
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' eyesuntil at 41 he becomes a drug addict, confined to his bedroom, at the mercy of his hallucinations and paranoia.











