![]() ![]() I haven’t even come close to stepped into a bar once in the past nearly fifty years. ![]() I recall walking into a bar when in college and found the whole scene sour and depressing. In many ways, much too vulnerable and sensitive for mid-20th century American society, a society where a man’s prime virtue is being tough.Ī Fan's Notes is the odyssey of one man’s unending heartbreak and retreat into an inner world of fantasy and dreams, a retreat, by his own account and language, punctuated by alcoholism and trips to the madhouse or, put another way, an autobiographical novel about Fredrick Exley’s longtime failure in the years prior to when he finally staked his claim to fame by writing a memoir about his aching, painful life.įirst off, let me say bellying up to a bar, drinking, smoking, commiserating, cheering for a sports team while watching a game is not me, which is understatement. Fredrick Exley (1929-1992) – Photo of the writer as a vulnerable, sensitive young man. ![]()
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