A collectable copy of a hard-to-find classic. This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failures nightmarish decent into the underside of American life. Perhaps only in tightrope America, where to trip once is to die more than a. 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 Fan's Notes is a work of depth and seriousnessa moving, richly humorous record of humiliation and perseverance. He is rushed to the hospital, where he meets Dr. Exley then writes of an incident - what, at the time, he believed to be a heart attack. 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. There, he recounts his weekly life as a teacher at Glacial Falls the crooked set-up of a school system he belonged to at that moment - and his drunken weekends watching football in his hometown bar. An edition of A fans notes (1968) A fans notes a fictional memoir by Frederick Exley 5. A Giants' victory would seem to justify, for a few hours, his misshapen life. 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 Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley