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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780679720768
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 08-12-1988
Pages: 400
Product Dimensions: 5.27(w) x 7.91(h) x 0.73(d)
Series: Vintage Contemporaries
About the Author
Frederick Exley is the author of A Fan’s Notes, Pages from a Cold Island, and Last Notes from Home. He was nominated for a National Book Award, was the recipient of the William Faulkner Award, received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, and won a Playboy silver medal for the best nonfiction piece of 1974. He also received a Rockefeller Foundation grant, a Harper-Saxton Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Frederick Exley died in 1992.