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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 fatherΓ’β¬β’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 Γ’β¬β and, unfortunately, dead Γ’β¬β Frederick Exley, a Watertown native and the author of his fatherΓ’β¬β’s favorite book, the Γ’β¬Εfictional memoirΓ’β¬Β A FanΓ’β¬β’s Notes. The story of MillerΓ’β¬β’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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