A Fan's Notes
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2010
Summary
‘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! 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224083096 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224083090 |
| Author: | The Estate Of Frederick Exley, Nick Hornby |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2010 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
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
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 *
The Estate Of Frederick Exley
The Estate Of Frederick Exley (Author)
Fred Exley is the author of A Fan’s Notes, Pages from a Cold Island, and Last Notes from Home. 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 Playboy Silver Medal for the best non-fiction piece of 1974. He also received a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a Harper-Saxton Fellowship, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Frederick Exley died in 1992.
Nick Hornby (Introducer)
Nick Hornby is the bestselling author of nine novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and Just Like You, as well as several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. His books have sold over 3.5 million copies in the UK, and many have been turned into successful films and TV series. He has been Oscar-nominated twice for his screenplays, and his TV work has won three Emmys. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. He lives in London.
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