The Estate Of Frederick Exley Knihy

Presents a fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, describing the profound failures of Exley's life -- professional, sexual, and personal. His attempts to find a place for himself in an unaccommodating world take him from the University of Southern California to Chicago -- where he meets the dangerously seductive, lovely Bunny Sue Allorgee -- to New York City's Greenwich Village saloons, and back to Watertown, his hometown in upstate New York, where he spends months on his mother's living room davenport watching television before undergoing shock treatment at Avalon Valley hospital. Between bars, women, and jobs, Exley exercises his obsession with the New York Giants and their great halfback Frank Gifford, until he at last realizes his life's ambition: writing A Fan's Notes

Sous un soleil aveuglant, Frederick Exley s'effondre, le corps rongé par la boisson. Ainsi débute la confession d'un marginal, errant à travers l'Amérique, noyant sa quête de gloire au gré des bars et déboires. De l'ivrogne au poète, du loser au rescapé, il signe une épopée titubante et féroce dont Nick Hornby, dans sa préface, salue l'époustouflant talent.