The unfortunates /

One of the lost classics of the 1960s - and a legendary experiment in form - published in the U.S. for the first time. 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, is one of the key works of a novelist...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johnson, B. S. (Bryan Stanley), 1933-1973
Other Authors: Coe, Jonathan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New Directions Pub., 2007.
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