The Unfortunates
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The Unfortunates is an experimental "book in a box" written in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and published in 2008 by New Directions. The 27 chapters are unbound, so that the reader can read them in any order. The Unfortunates is considered a lost classic of the 1960s.
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A sportswriter is sent to a small town on an assignment, only to find himself confronted by ghosts from the past. As he attempts to report a soccer match, memories of his friend, a tragic victim of cancer, haunts his mind.
