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The Unfortunates

by B S Johnson

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Publisher Comments:

B.S. Johnson's lost classic has been showered with praise: New York Magazine named The Unfortunates one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008, and The Los Angeles Times declared it to be "his most daring work."

A legendary 1960s experiment in form, The Unfortunates is B. S. Johnson's famous "book in a box," in which the chapters are presented unbound, to be read in any order the reader chooses. A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the train station. Memories of one of his best, most trusted friends, a tragically young victim of cancer, begin to flood through his mind as he attempts to go about the routine business of reporting a soccer match.

The Unfortunates is a book of passionate honesty and dark, courageous humor: a meditation on death and a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.

Synopsis:

A gift "book in a box" by one of Britain's greatest modern writers, hailed as "a triumph" by The New York Times Book Review.
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About the Author

B.S. (Bryan Stanley) Johnson(1933-1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, critic and filmmaker.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780811217439
Author:
Johnson, B S
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Introduction by:
Coe, Jonathan
Introduction:
Coe, Jonathan
Author:
Johnson, B. S.
Author:
Coe, Jonathan
Subject:
Loss (psychology)
Subject:
Friendship
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Experimental fiction
Subject:
Cancer -- Patients.
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
2008
Publication Date:
20091131
Binding:
SET SOFTCOVER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
8 x 5 in
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