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The unfortunates
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 The Author
- B S Johnson (1933-1973), an admirer of Joyce and Beckett, was a novelist whose works combine verbal inventiveness with typographical innovations. His works include Albert Angelo, Trawl, The Unfortunates, House Mother Normal and Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780330353298
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Picador, (08 October 1999)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Weight
- 410 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 202 x 135 x 29 mm
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