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...NOTES by Frederick Exley. 385 pages. Harper...
...nature to find solace for his workaday existence. Sometimes he went to a saloon or a ballpark. But now, each autumn Sunday, he turns to the TV set, and enjoys the drunken exhilaration of victories by Chargers, or Giants, or Packers. It is there, says First-Novelist Frederick Exley, 38, that contemporary man can find fantasy heroes to act out his own ineluctable dreams...
...Notes is the somewhat autobiographical account of Exley's youthful attempts to participate in the American myth. He wants to be the superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...