The Unfortunates, by B. S. Johnson

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. A sportswriter, sent to a small town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from his past when he disembarks at the train station. One of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest, The Unfortunates is now available in a beautiful new edition with an introduction by Jonathan Coe.

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