International standard book number
0586026789
Shelfmark
Lkk.3.04
Author
Title
The unfortunates / by B.S. Johnson.
Publication, distribution, etc.
[London] : Panther Books in association with Secker & Warburg, 1969.
Physical description
27 sections ([136] p.) in case ; 22 cm
Note
"This novel has twenty-seven sections, temporarily held together by a removable wrapper. Apart from the first and last sections ... the other twenty-five sections are intended to be read in random order."--Note on inside of case.
Summary, etc.
Scope and content: Example of a book for the active reader. A semi-autobiographical narrative where the novel is written as discrete sections. These sections, with the exception of the first and last, may be read in any order to create a random order of memory and experience in which a journalists returns to Nottingham to report on a football match but recalls and relives many former experiences in the processs.
Provenance
Inscribed by the author inside the lid of the box: "For Keith Botsford, towards a writers" co-operative, Bryan, 11/7/70", and also signed B.S. Johnson over the title. The recipient was an Anglo-American novelist associated with Saul Bellow.
Subject
English fiction 20th century.
Subject
Experimental fiction, English.
Genre/Form
Unbound sheets.
Added entry--name
Botsford, Keith, 1928 - 2018 former owner.
Added entry--name
Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933 - 1973 inscriber.
Added entry--name
Secker & Warburg publisher.
Added entry--name
Panther Books (Firm) publisher.
Added entry--place
England
Language code
eng
Identifier
B54425