Read Series: A Fan's Notes
by Author Frederick Exley
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A Fan's Notes (1988)
Jonathan Yardley's introduction explains that Frederick Exley had intended to publish A Fan's Notes as a memoir, but was asked to novelize it by Harper & Row, who feared libel actions. We have this amazing book, Yardley writes, a caustic masterpiece by a man who was essentially an alcoholic bum ...
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Last Notes from Home (1990)
Having finished the trilogy of Exley's novels first in high school--where, I think, Exley's indulgences in oral sex, cultural masculinity, substance abuse, et cetera, can seem to a teenager like a very raw reading of the psyche--I'm impressed overall how well the final book holds up, and though I...