A Fan's Notes was briefly featured in the documentary film Stone Reader as an example of a brilliant debut novel. To this extent, and for this reason, I ask to be judged a writer of fantasy.' Since its publication the book has been reprinted several times and achieved a cult following.

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.I have drawn freely from the imagination and adhered only loosely to the pattern of my past life. Subtitled 'A Fictional Memoir' and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical. The first first novel of the season with an unquestionable dynamism, Frederick Exleys is autobiographical, a form which permits the writer to stay. This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self. A Fan’s Notes, Exley’s landmark 1968 personal history and fictional memoir, pivoted on the author’s lifelong obsession with Gifford. “A Fan's Notes is a 1968 novel by Frederick Exley. Read A Fans Notes by Frederick Exley available from Rakuten Kobo. Exley was a writers writer, they said, his novel gutsy-painful and honest. Mild curling to spine ends with evident of slight abrasion. Friends for years had been telling me about A Fans Notes by Frederick Exley. Light wear to edges and some bumps to panel edges. Damp soiling evident to jacket verso atop spine panel.

Edge wear with chipping and fraying to spine ends and corners, abrasion to spine, slight spotting and scuffs. Original quarter purple cloth over orange paper-covered boards, stamped in black, silver, in original unclipped ($6.95) dust-jacket. room davenport watching television before undergoing shock treatment at Avalon Valley hospital.

A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley