Pages From A Cold Island Author:Frederick Exley "Lunatic, funny, sad, and infuriating. A work of art." — --Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times — The second volume in Frederick Exley's trilogy of autobiographical novels is in every way a worthy sequel to the much-acclaimed A Fan's Notes. Pages from a Cold Island begins with the death of Edmund Wilson, a devastating event that sends Exl... more »ey on an obsessive personal odyssey from Alexandria Bay on the St. Lawrence River to a resort island off the coast of Florida to the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Our hero lurches from one outrageous encounter to another in a chronicle full of irrepressible energy and no-holds-barred confession.
"Even better than A Fan's Notes...marvelously funny. One of the truly remarkable personal chronicles of our time." --William Styron
"Exley matters because beneath the surface of a life seemingly given over to too much booze and random sex and aimlessness, there is a true writer, an artist unseduced by fad and fashion. --Jonathan Yardley, New Republic« less