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| The Unfortunates | 
 enlarge | Author: B. S. Johnson
Creator: Jonathan Coe
Publisher: New Directions
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Format: Box Set
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0811217434
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780811217439
Publication Date: May 28, 2008
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Product Description
A gift "book in a box" by one of Britain's greatest modern writers.
One of the lost classics of the 1960s, and a legendary 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. It is one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest.
A sportswriter, sent to a small 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.
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