One of the lost classics of the 1960s - and a legendary experiment in form - is here reissued for the first time in thirtu years.

A sports journalist, sent to a Midlands town on a weekly assignment, finds himself confronted by ghosts from the past when he disembarks at the railway 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 football match.

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, in one of the key works of a novelist now undergoing an enormous revival of interest. It is a book of passionate honesty and dark, courageous humour : a meditation on death and a celebration of friendship which also offers a remarkably frank self-portrait of its author.

With an introduction by Jonathan Coe

Proposition de lecture en relation avec ce livre Like a Fiery Elephant. The story of B. S. Johnson