A Fan's Notes
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.
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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679720768 (0679720766)
ASIN: 679720766
Publish date: September 1988
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Pages no: 385
Edition language: English
Exceptionally lucky find in a kind of English book Pluto. It already has some staggering insights, but I'm going to take a wild guess what Exley revealed to his psychiatrist, based on the scenes he watches in the latrine.This book was turning into a truly impressive high-wire act of style over subst...
This is not a book about sports. If you don't know who Frederick Exley is -- and I didn't till I found it among Thomas' books (or was it a recommendation from him...? - well, either way...) -- then don't not read it because you think it's about sports. It has nothing to do with sports, except that t...
Glibly, you may call 'A Fan's Notes' the man's 'Bell Jar'. They are both semi-autobiographical novels dealing with the author's periods of hospitalization and their struggles getting started in life. Both books are excellent.Exley is a completely disarming author. Where Plath always kept a certain d...
Read a chunk of this for a class, but I really liked what I did read, and plan to read the whole thing eventually.
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