A Fan's Notes Paperback by Frederick Exley

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (1988-08-12)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 400 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679720768
• Item Weight: 289.17 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.2 x 0.7 cm

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.

About the Author

Frederick 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 nonfiction piece of 1974. He also received a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a Harper-Saxton Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Frederick Exley died in 1992.