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A Fan's Notes by Exley (1988, Paperback, Reprint) 
A Fan's Notes by Exley (1988, Paperback, Reprint)

 
A Fan's Notes by Exley (1988, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Exley
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1988-09-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0679720766
ISBN-13: 9780679720768
Product ID: EPID908728
Description: A fictionalized memoir of the author's childhood and maturity. Exley grew up the son of a football star, and as such grew up with a reverence for the sport that was both powerful and mythological. His role as fan--specifically, as a fa...
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Synopsis
A fictionalized memoir of the author's childhood and maturity. Exley grew up the son of a football star, and as such grew up with a reverence for the sport that was both powerful and mythological. His role as fan--specifically, as a fan of the New York Giants--provided him with an escape from his own identity and confusions, but kept him ultimately as a kind of prisoner of his illusions.

Details
Publication Date:1988-09-01
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Height:7.8 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note
Rejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley's autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.

Industry Reviews
"'Fan's Notes' is strong, beautiful, American, one of a kind."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"...Written with brilliance and insight. No one should have had Exley's life, and no one who has read it can forget it!"
James Dickey

"Writers of every kind of aesthetic and cultural persuasion talk about it with one another and press it on their friends to read. When I urge [it] on a friend who ask what is it about? I say read it, just read it."
Los Angeles Times - Geoffrey Wolff

"A moving and memorable book--it has the stab of reality."
Robert Penn Warren

"An instructive, powerful and bruising experience."
William H. Gass

"Though the author circles his materials slowly, shielded by his prose--horror, indignation, passion, humor and contentment ultimately break through....Exley has sacrificed stylistic niceties and economy for a dogged insistence on his vision. If the vision is not wholly in focus, the effort is admirable."
Book World - Lucy Rosenthal (10/06/1968)

"The book is written with thought, patience, and intelligence....[Mr. Exley] should develop into a fine novelist. His book is recommended for shelves of modern fiction collections."
Library Journal - Allen Cohen (09/15/1968)

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