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A Fan's Notes

by Frederick Exley · 1968

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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.

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literary fictionliterary fictionMore like thisLess of thishumorhumorMore like thisLess of this
Themes
sportssportsMore like thisLess of thisaddictionaddictionMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1960s1960sMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 385 pages

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