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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-100811217434
ISBN-139780811217439
eBay Product ID (ePID)63847792
Product Key Features
Book TitleUnfortunates
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Literary
Publication Year2009
GenreFiction
AuthorB. S. Johnson
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight13.8 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.4 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-023007
ReviewsFar from some modernist stunt, the form of the book dovetails beautifully with Johnson's subject-the accidental yet persistent nature of memory....This book, with no belief in God, no hope of heaven, makes you feel the stuff of life as sacred, and our inability to hold on to it as damnation enough for anyone to be made to bear., Beautifully reprinted with an invaluable introductory essay ... The Unfortunates allows us a peculiar feeling of discovery.
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal823/.914
SynopsisA gift "book in a box" by one of Britain's greatest modern writers, hailed as "a triumph" by The New York Times Book Review., B.S. Johnson's lost classic has been showered with praise: New York Magazine named The Unfortunates one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2008, and The Los Angeles Times declared it to be "his most daring work." A legendary 1960s 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. A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands 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., A legendary 1960s 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. A sportswriter, sent to a Midlands 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, 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6060.O3U65 2008
