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Imprint: Yellow Jersey
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Published: 27/04/2010
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ISBN: 9780224083096
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Length: 400 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
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Weight: 277g
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RRP: £10.99
A Fan's Notes
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The Estate Of Frederick Exley
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Nick Hornby (Introducer)
'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 him - he drinks too much, he's impotent and the Giants start to loose. And so we follow his boozy trail through two failed marriages, many bars and intermittent visits to Avalon Valley - a private home for the mentally ill. Shockingly politically incorrect, terribly self-indulgent but more than redeemed by its unremitting honesty and insight this is the unforgettable story of a man laid bare.
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Imprint: Yellow Jersey
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Published: 27/04/2010
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ISBN: 9780224083096
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Length: 400 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 25mm x 129mm
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Weight: 277g
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RRP: £10.99
Reviews
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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
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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
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Astonishing... It is visceral and intimate. Self-absorbed, it is also searingly perceptive about what happens between fathers and sons, men and women
Independent
