Unfortunates

Name: Unfortunates
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ISBN: 9780811217439

ISBN-10: 0811217434

ISBN-13: 9780811217439

Edition: 2008

Authors: B. S. Johnson, Jonathan Coe, B. Johnson

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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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 11/17/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

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 (1964), Trawl (1966), The Unfortunates (1969), House Mother Normal (1971) and Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry (1973).