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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House USA Inc, Vintage Books
ISBN-10
0679720766
ISBN-13
9780679720768
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108028427
Product Key Features
Author
Frederick Exley
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Out-Of-Print Date
24/11/2015
Date of Publication
12/08/1988
Country of Publication
United States
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