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A Fan's Notes

Frederick Exley

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#2461 of 8,085 books · #1031 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1969).

A Fan's Notes is the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed male. His primary concerns are booze, 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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Publisher
Ballantine Books
ISBN-13
9780224059312
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Alcoholism and self-destructionFailure and masculinityMental illness

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