A FAN'S NOTES

Exley, Frederick

Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1968

About this Item

Exley's cult classic, a fictional memoir based on the author's real struggle, complicated by alcohol abuse and mental illness, to avoid being a lifelong "loser." Son of a fabled high school athlete in Watertown, NY, but with no interest in athletics in a sports-rabid town, Exley's only joy was in watching, through an alcoholic haze, the NY Giants on televison on Sunday afternoons at a local bar. A Giants' victory would seem to justify, for a few hours, his misshapen life. In between football games, drinking bouts, shock treatments and insulin therapy, Exley would venture out into the world to play at being a normal, successful, young man on-the-go only to find each attempt driving him toward insanity again bringing him to the conclusion he is not a hero but merely a fan. Text's fore edge is lighlty foxed, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square; the dustjacket shows single, quarter-inch closed tears on the bottom edge of both front and back panels, o/w only very minimal surface and edgewear; not price-clipped. A collectable copy of a hard-to-find classic.

Seller Inventory # 004492

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A FAN'S NOTES
• Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
• Publication Date: 1968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fine Literature
  • Biography/Memoirs
  • Modern Novel