Misfit: : The Strange Life of Frederick Exley

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Summary: An astute investigation of an enigmatic personality
Review: Yardley does some wonderful spelunking here, using the standard tools of the biographer--along with some truly skillful analysis of Exley's own writing--to plumb the depths of this interesting, tragicomic, and quintessentially American personality. Readers smitten by Exley's prose in *A Fan's Notes* (and his other two books and sporadic journalism) will find much of interest in Yardley's readable account of this writer's strange life and times.