The Elected Member is a Booker Prize-winning novel by Welsh author Bernice Rubens.
The novel's main character is Norman Zweck, who is addicted to amphetamines and is convinced that he sees silverfish wherever he goes.
The Elected Member won the 1970 Man Booker Prize for fiction; this marked the first time it had been awarded to a woman (although only the second award overall).
Review of The Elected Member from the Booker Blog 'The Guardian'
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- 1970
