A Fan's Notes

A Fan's Notes Series

This series of novels chronicles a man's desperate pursuit of the American dream, an underdog whose life is a tapestry of ambition and despair. Readers are drawn into his internal world, marked by both profound melancholy and a sharp, often humorous, observational wit. The narrative style is distinctive, blending hardboiled realism with a more literary, introspective voice. It's a poignant exploration of failure, obsession, and the often-elusive nature of success.

A Fan's Notes

The Estate Of Frederick Exley

400 pages
14 hours of reading

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Presents a fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, describing the profound failures of Exley's 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

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