The Unfortunates
Author | : B S Johnson |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2023-06-29 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781447276531 |
ISBN-13 | : 1447276531 |
Rating | : 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.