num_pages: 288
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Unfortunates
titlecomplete: The Unfortunates
genres: 20th Century, Death, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, English Literature, Classics, British Literature, Adult, Fiction
ratings_count: 1064
places: England, West Midlands, England
publisher: Picador