A Fan's Notes
The Estate Of Frederick Exley author Nick Hornby editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:27th Apr '10
Should be back in stock very soon
'Exley's "fictional memoir" is a staggering book, a beautiful book, and one deserving of a much wider readership' - Guardian
'Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'
A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. And so we follow his boozy trail through two failed marriages, many bars and intermittent visits to Avalon Valley - a private home for the mentally ill.
'Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss...'
A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed male. His primary concerns are alcohol, sex and the New York Giants. But things go very wrong for him - he drinks too much, he's impotent and the Giants start to loose. And so we follow his boozy trail through two failed marriages, many bars and intermittent visits to Avalon Valley - a private home for the mentally ill. Shockingly politically incorrect, terribly self-indulgent but more than redeemed by its unremitting honesty and insight this is the unforgettable story of a man laid bare.
A Fan's Notes is one man's life 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 and press it on their friends. When I urge it on a friend who asks what it is about or what it is like, I say read it, just read it -- Geoffrey Wolff
Astonishing... It is visceral and intimate. Self-absorbed, it is also searingly perceptive about what happens between fathers and sons, men and women * Independent *
ISBN: 9780224083096
Dimensions: 198mm x 130mm x 23mm
Weight: 280g
400 pages