Exley

Fiction. Literature. HTML:�??The literary equivalent of a half-court shot . . . Extraordinary.�?��??NPR For young Miller Le Ray, life has become a search. A search for his dad, who may or may not have joined the army and gone to Iraq. A search for a notorious (and, unfortunately, deceased) writer, Frederick Exley, author of the �??fictional memoir�?� A Fan�??s Notes, who may hold the key to bringing Miller�??s father back. But most of all, his is a search for truth. As Miller says, �??Sometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff you�??ve done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you haven�??t done.�?� In Exley as in his previous bestselling novel, An Arsonist�??s Guide to Writers�?? Homes in New England, Brock Clarke takes his reader into a world that is both familiar and disorienting, thought-provoking and thoroughly entertaining. Told by Miller and Dr. Pahnee, both unreliable narrators, it becomes an exploration of the difference between what we belie… (more)