{"product_id":"9780811217439-boxed-unfortunates","title":"The Unfortunates","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA gift “book in a box” by one of Britain’s greatest modern writers, hailed as “a triumph” by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e. B.S. Johnson’s lost classic has been showered with praise: \u003cem\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e named \u003cem\u003eThe Unfortunates\u003c\/em\u003e one of their Ten Best Books of 2008, listed in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e 100 Notable Books of 2008, and \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e declared it to be “his most daring work.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A legendary 1960s experiment in form, \u003cem\u003eThe Unfortunates\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Unfortunates\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40869060214881,"sku":"9780811217439","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/ec566d20ef87052caa64eb9694cffcec.png?v=1686807579","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780811217439-boxed-unfortunates","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}