B. S. Johnson

The Unfortunates

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Coe, Jonathan (Solist)

ISBN: 978-0-8112-1743-9
EAN: 9780811217439
Produktnummer: 19365402
Verlag: New Directions
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.9 cm 390 g
Gewicht: 390

Über den Autor

B. S. Johnson (Bryan Stanley Johnson) (1933-1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet, literary critic and filmmaker. He was born into a working-class family, was evacuated from London during World War II, and left school at sixteen to work as an accountant. However, he taught himself Latin in the evenings, and with this knowledge, managed to pass the university exam for King's College London. After he graduated Johnson wrote a series of increasingly experimental and often acutely personal novels. A critically acclaimed film adaptation of the last of the novels published while he was alive, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry was released in 2000. Increasingly depressed by his failure to succeed commercially, and beset by family problems, Johnson committed suicide.