The Unfortunates

The Unfortunates

Infobox Book
name = The Unfortunates
author = B.S. Johnson
country = United Kingdom
language = English
publisher = Secker & Warburg
pub_date = 1969
media_type = Paperback (27 unbound sections in laminated box)
pages = 244 pages
isbn = 0330353292
preceded_by = Trawl
followed_by = House Mother Normal

The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" written in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and published in 2008 by New Directions. The 27 chapters are unbound, so that the reader can read them in any order. "The Unfortunates" is considered a lost classic of the 1960s.

Plot

A sportswriter is sent to a small town on an assignment, only to find himself confronted by ghosts from the past. As he attempts to report a soccer match, memories of his friend, a tragic victim of cancer, haunts his mind.

References

*http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/j/b-s-johnson/unfortunates.htm

External links

* [http://www.ndpublishing.com/home.html New Directions Publishing]


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