{"product_id":"last-notes-from-home-by-frederick-exley","title":"'Last Notes from Home' by Frederick Exley","description":"\u003ch4\u003eFrederick Exley’s \u003cem\u003eLast Notes from Home\u003c\/em\u003e is the third book in his loose autobiographical trilogy, following \u003cem\u003eA Fan’s Notes\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePages from a Cold Island\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a manic, bruised, obscene, funny, self-lacerating thing: part memoir, part fiction, part drunken American confession, part late-life reckoning with family, failure, masculine performance, illness, fame, Catholic guilt, literary ambition; and it certainly isn't interested in leaving out the evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExley’s great trick is that he makes self-disgust theatrical without making it noble. The voice is extravagant, bitter, comic, sentimental, and wildly undisciplined in the exact way that makes it feel alive on the page. For readers of autofiction before it became house-trained; for fans of American literary degeneracy, barstool metaphysics, ego collapse, and sentences that stagger beautifully before falling through a window.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Vintage Contemporaries edition, 1990. Very good paperback with light shelfwear.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45717283668051,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-19T141151.014.png?v=1781842384","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/last-notes-from-home-by-frederick-exley","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}