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A Fan's Notes - (Vintage Contemporaries) by Frederick Exley (Paperback)

A Fan's Notes - (Vintage Contemporaries) by  Frederick Exley (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Frederick Exley's inimitable "fictional memoir" A Fan's Notes has assumed the status of a classic since its first publication in 1968. Mordantly and poignantly, Exley describes the profound failures of his life - professional, sexual, and personal. His attempts to find a place for himself in an unaccommodating world take him from the University of Southern California to Chicago - where he meets the dangerously seductive, lovely Bunny Sue Allorgee - to New York City's Greenwich Village saloons, and back to Watertown, his hometown in upstate New York, where he spends months on his mother's living room davenport watching television before undergoing shock treatment at Avalon Valley hospital. Between bars, women, and jobs, Exley exercises his obsession with the New York Giants and their great halfback Frank Gifford, until he at last realizes his life's ambition: writing A Fan's Notes.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Frederick Exley</b> is the author of <i>A Fan's Notes, Pages from a Cold Island</i>, and <i>Last Notes from Home</i>. He was nominated for a National Book Award, was the recipient of the William Faulkner Award, received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and won a <i>Playboy</i> silver medal for the best nonfiction piece of 1974. He also received a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a Harper-Saxton Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Frederick Exley died in 1992.

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