by NickHornby (Introduction), TheEstateOfFrederickExley (Author)
Listen, you son of a bitch, life isn't all a goddam football game! You won't always get the girl! Life is rejection and pain and loss...' A Fan's Notes - the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure. Our narrator is the ultimate unreconstructed male. His primary concerns are alcohol, sex and the New York Giants. But things go very wrong for him - he drinks too much, he's impotent and the Giants start to loose. And so we follow his boozy trail through two failed marriages, many bars and intermittent visits to Avalon Valley - a private home for the mentally ill. Shockingly politically incorrect, terribly self-indulgent but more than redeemed by its unremitting honesty and insight this is the unforgettable story of a man laid bare.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Published: 27 Apr 2010
ISBN 10: 0224083090
ISBN 13: 9780224083096
Book Overview: 'Exley's fictional memoir is a staggering book, a beautiful book, and one deserving of a much wider readership' - Guardian