Exley A Novel
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 Òfictional memoirÓ A FanÕs Notes , who may hold the key to bringing MillerÕs father back. But most of all, his is a search for truth. As Miller says, ÒSometimes you have to tell the truth about some of the stuff youÕve done so that people will believe you when you tell them the truth about other stuff you havenÕt done.Ó In Exley as in his previous bestselling novel, An ArsonistÕs Guide to WritersÕ 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 believe to be real and what is in fact real.
