Frank Gifford and Frederick Exley
Exley's dead now, and so is Frank Gifford, and probably most of the other people mentioned, under their own names or others, in this book ...
John Avlon on X: "As an unorthodox but pure back-in-the-day ...
As an unorthodox but pure back-in-the-day appreciation of Frank Gifford in his glory, check out Frederick Exley's “A Fan's Notes.”
Wednesday, March 09, 2005 - Vince Keenan
Wednesday, March 09, 2005. Book: A Fan's Notes, by Frederick Exley (1968) ... Frank Gifford. One achieves success while the other seems destined ...
THE EXLEY FILES - Chicago Tribune
... Frederick Exley. Born on March 28, 1929, in Watertown ... Of these personalities, none was more significant than Frank Gifford, whom Exley ...
Richard Ford's “The Sportswriter” & Frederick Exley's “A Fan's Notes”
His father was a local high-school and college football star. And then Exley went to USC with Frank Gifford, who became a player for the Giants.
Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes is a good hard look at sports fandom. The ... Frank Gifford. This book will have the uncomfortable shock of recognition ...
In Praise of Frederick Exley - Shea Magazine
The obsession with Frank Gifford, we find out, began at USC, which they both attended. Gifford was an All American at USC, and Exley knows “no way of describing ...
Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes - mirabile dictu
... Frederick Exley, cannot hold a job. Exley, an alcoholic, is in and ... And he went to USC with Frank Gifford, though he did not know him.
Jock Itch – Bookforum Magazine
NAUSEA, AND GIFFORD HIMSELF, loom as the twin spires flanking Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes, a book published forty-eight years before ...
A Fan's Notes (1968) - Perikrone
A Fan's Notes (1968). by Frederick Exley. This might be it: the ... Frank Gifford who unwittingly bears Exley's self-image each Fall Sunday.
Frank Gifford passes of natural causes | Irish Envy
Let me encourage you, if you like good books, to track down a copy of "A Fan's Notes" by Frederick Exley. It's a "fictional memoir", but a novel ...
Frederick Exley | Charles Bukowski - American author
It has some lengths tho, and I had to google who Frank Gifford is because he is mentioned 2 billion times. But besides of that I would ...
Why read A Fan's Notes? - Shepherd
Discover why A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley is such a great book to read ... Frank Gifford into one of the best novels of post-war America. Starting ...
Frederick Exley - Thornfield Hall
His father was a local high-school and college football star. And then Exley went to USC with Frank Gifford, who became a player for the Giants.
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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 ...
Introducing 'A Fan's Notes,' the Blog - Medium
... Frederick Exley's 1968 “fictional memoir” of the same name ... Frank Gifford); his myriad addictions (from “heroic drinking” to pills to ...
... Frank Gifford, with whom the protagonist insists on maintaining a tenuous connection as erstwhile College peers. And whilst living life ...
Goodbye Frank Gifford, from A Fan's Notes to Kathie Lee's swoons ...
I found reading the 1968 novel A Fan's Notes by Frederick Exley an enigmatic thrill when I discovered it on my reading list for a literature ...
Exley, Frederick Earl | Encyclopedia.com
There Exley changed his major to English, developed a taste for liquor, and had a chance meeting with the All-American football great Frank Gifford, whose ...
One Great Book in a Life of Failure / Biography of Frederick Exley ...
Transferring the impossible hero worship he never stopped feeling for his father onto real-life football star Frank Gifford, with whom Exley ...
A Fan's Notes
Novel by Frederick ExleyA Fan's Notes is a 1968 novel by Frederick Exley. Subtitled "A Fictional Memoir" and categorized as fiction, the book is semi-autobiographical.