Fans notes fictional memoir (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Erstwhile remainder, cover hole-punched, unread, has shelfwear, foxed edges, o/w clean pages, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, Good condition. Subtitled 'A Fictional Memoir' and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical. In a brief 'Note to the Reader' in the opening pages, Exley writes: "Though the events in this book bear similarity to those of that long malaise, my life, many of the characters and happenings are creations solely of the imagination. In creating such characters, I have drawn freely from the imagination and adhered only loosely to the pattern of my past life. To this extent, and for this reason, I ask to be judged a writer of fantasy." "A FAN'S NOTES is strong, beautiful, American, one of a kind."--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. "A welcome reminder of what the basic business of literature and of living really is. All fans of art and life should read it."--Jack Kroll, Newsweek. "This is the horrible and hilarious account of a long failure, but a failure which turns into success: the success that this book is. A FAN'S NOTES is one man's life, written with brilliance and insight. No one should have had Exley's life, and no one who has ever read it can forget it."--James Dickey. "Before A FAN'S NOTES, I stand with something like the awe due a miracle."--George P. Elliot. Good copy comes in yellow paperback w/Spanfeller illustration, faded spine, as a handy reading copy. See my listings RUB3113 & RUB874 for the other two books in Exley's trilogy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 7.75x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Couverture souple. Zustand: bon. RO20258300: 1970. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 350 pages - en anglais. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.

Softcover. First edition. Octavo, 385 pages. In Fair condition. Spine is red without print. In plastic book sleeve.Cover is red with black print; edge wear, creasing to spine. Text block slightly cracked front hinge. Advance reading copy? NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column K (ND-K). 1416663. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 8 x 5.5", wraps, 385pp, minor wear. Recipient of the William Faulkner award for best first novel and was a finalist for the National Book Award for this title. FIRST EDITION, ADVANCE READING COPY OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original grey cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in the James Spanfeller illustrated dustwrapper. Avery good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the signed bookplate of Peter B. Messent (author and Professor of Modern American Literature) to the front pastedown, are clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed dustwrapper that is a little nicked at the spine tips and is otherwise bright and without loss. Not price-clipped (35s / £1.75 to the lower front flap). The author's first book, a cult classic. Sub-titled a 'fictional memoir', the novel is based on the author's real struggle as a New York Giants fan, complicated by alcohol abuse and mental illness. The book formed the basis for the 1972 Palme d'Or nominated film of the same name directed by Eric Till, starring Jerry Orbach and Patricia Collins. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York, Harper & Row, 1968. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean tight copy. Jacket has a tiny closed tear at head of spine and some very slight edge-wear. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($6.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. The author's first book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. purple cloth, papered boards, silver lettering, dust jacket unclipped, 385 pp, first edition owner's name (Jill Evans) on front endpaper, light wear and small tears to edges of dust jacket Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped Octavo.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. [12], 385, [3] pages. A Note to the Reader. DJ has slight wear and soiling. His first book, and the subject of a 1972 film. Frederick Earl "Fred" Exley (March 28, 1929 - June 17, 1992) was an American writer. His fictional memoir A Fan's Notes received critical acclaim and awards. He followed it up with two more fictional memoirs. In 1952, Exley dropped out of USC and moved to New York City to find employment, only to return a year later to complete a BA in English. He returned to New York to work in public relations for New York Central Railroad. After a year there he relocated to their Chicago office, then began working for Rock Island Railroad in the same capacity. Exley soon took over as managing editor of the railroad's employee magazine, The Rocket, where his first published writing appeared. Exley was institutionalized three times in the 1950s after entering an itinerant period marked by acute alcoholism, obsession with New York Giants football, mental instability and schizophrenia that was to provide much of the autobiographical material for his first book, A Fan's Notes. His alcoholism growing worse, Exley began a decade of briefly-held jobs and institutionalization, while continuing to work on A Fan's Notes. In 1964, Exley sent the manuscript for A Fan's Notes to Joe Fox at Random House, who suggested an agent, Lynn Nesbit who sold it to Harper & Row. A Fan's Notes prompted widespread critical acclaim. The novel was a finalist for the National Book Award, and received the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award. 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 television on Sunday afternoons at a local bar. A Giants' victory would seem to justify, for a few hours, his misshapen life. 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. Derived from a Kirkus review: A first novel of unquestionable dynamism, Frederick Exley's is "autobiographical," a form which permits the writer to stay closer to life while surfacing more freely above conventional disciplines. Exley's is a documentary of experience exposed, sometimes assessed, and often numbingly intensified. In Glacial Falls, upstate New York where he is teaching, life begins again for Exley as it does every Sunday in a bar, with the amber allure of the bottle just before the Giants' game flashes on the screen. His father had been a great football player and had heard the roar of the crowd; Exley's fate is to only be a fan, an intransigent truth he reaches only many drinks, many years later. This then follows him through long, lost intervals in and out of a New York hospital for the insane; a summer in Chicago and his first, incomplete "season of love"; his assaults against the real world of making a living and failing to accept its responsibilities; his marriage to uncomplaining if un-understanding Patience, protected by her money; and through a whole series of wild flights with some randy, rummy characters-Bumpy and The Counselor and Mr. Blue. Finally, all these crippling dreams and grandiose fantasies end with the acceptance of "life's hard fact of famelessness." But then as Lawrence said, "the quick of all time is the instant." Exley's book has many instants, many moments. It is unmistakably vital and reads obsessively, obliteratingly.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First Edition. 385p octavo, A fine copy in like dust jacket . Signed by Exley in 1972. Bookplate.

First Edition. First edition. Author's first book. A great book about obsession with the New York Giants and Frank Gifford. Crisp and fine with only the lightest of rubbing to edges; in near fine dust jacket with just a few tiny nicks and touch of light soiling. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear blank.…

385 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. First edition. 385 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Exley's "fictional memoir," a tale of a New York Giants' fan's peregrinations, has become a touchstone for post-modern autofiction. It was made into a 1972 film starring Jerry Orbach in the title role. Half purple cloth and orange paper covered boards, stamped on spine and front cover. Edges with some shelfwear, text with a few marks from handling, otherwise near fine in like dust jacket.…