Talk:The Unfortunates

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the unfortunates is about two boys who end up in a remote part of the countryside in result of being chased by a dog. starring benjie cramer and jake tatlock

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The final sentence of the Plot reads: Part of the unique pleasure of the novel for those who know Nottingham is gradually realising that it is Nottingham being described; making it somewhat Proustian in this regard.

The word unique in the first clause of the sentence implies either that the book is uniquely set in Nottingham or that the pleasure of realising that the book is set in Nottingham can only be experienced in this novel and no other. Neither of those seem to be encyclopedic claims and neither of them is sourced; the first of them is demonstrably false since Joan Wallace has written four novels set in Nottingham, John Harvey has written a series of novels featuring a detective called Charlie Resnick, all of which are set in Nottingham, and of course, many of Alan Sillitoe's novels including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Ragman's Daughter, The Death of William Posters, and others are set in Nottingham where the author was born.

The claim that the novel is "Proustian in this regard" is quite meaningless and unencyclopedic: and unsourced. I have therefore deleted the whole sentence. Cottonshirt τ 02:19, 5 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]