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The Unfortunates

B S Johnson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:8th Oct '99

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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.

One of the lost masterpieces of the sixties -- Jonathan Coe

ISBN: 9780330353298

Dimensions: 202mm x 135mm x 29mm

Weight: 410g

288 pages