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Unfortunates

B S Johnson
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1960s
27 sections
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book in a box
cancer
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death
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experimental
friendship
ghosts
literary
masterpieces
meditation
memories
Nottingham
sixties
sports
sportswriter

Product details

  • ISBN 9780330353298
  • Weight: 410g
  • Dimensions: 135 x 202mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Oct 1999
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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A sports journalist, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway 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 football match.

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, is one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest. The Unfortunates is a book of passionate honesty and dark, courageous humour: a meditation on death and a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.
About B S Johnson
In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known novelists in Britain. His work includes Travelling People, Albert Angelo and House Mother Normal. A passionate advocate for the avant-garde in both literature and film, he became famous for his forthright views on the future of the novel and for his idiosyncratic ways of putting them into practice.

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