A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley [TRADE PAPERBACK] 1988 • Vintage Contemporaries

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley 

TRADE PAPERBACK [1985] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

Second Vintage Contemporaries edition / 1988 re-issue with revised cover. 

Solid reading copy with visible wear to cover. 

Pages have some tanning and mild wear.  Cropped front endpaper.  Reads clean! 

Frederick Exley's inimitable "fictional memoir" A Fan's Notes has assumed the status of a classic since its first publication in 1968.   It was nominated for a National Book Award, won the William Faulkner Award for "the year's most notable first novel," and was awarded the National Academy...

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.