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Algonquin Books
October 2010
On Sale: October 5, 2010
320 pages
ISBN: 1565126084
EAN: 9781565126084
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For nine-year-old Miller, who lives with his mother in
Watertown, New York, life has become a struggle to make
sense of his father’s disappearance, for which he blames
himself. Then, when he becomes convinced that he has found
his father lying comatose in the local VA hospital, a victim
of the war in Iraq, Miller begins a search for the one
person he believes can save him, the famously reclusive —
and, unfortunately, dead — Frederick Exley, a Watertown
native and the author of his father’s favorite book, the
“fictional memoir†A Fan’s Notes. The story of Miller’s
search, told by both Miller himself and his somewhat flaky
therapist, ultimately becomes an exploration of the
difference between what we believe to be real and what is in
fact real, and how challenging it can be to reconcile the two.
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