A Fan's Notes: A Fictional Memoir

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1968). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [light shelfwear, spine a bit turned, some fading to top edges of covers; the jacket has quite a bit of dog-earing along the top edge and at the base of the spine, a bit of fading along the right edge of the front panel, a short and slightly gaping tear at the top front hinge, a short closed tear at the top edge of the rear panel, diagonal creasing at bottom corner of the front flap and both corners of the rear flap]. The author's debut novel, a classic of Sixties American Lit. A semi-autobiographical chronicle, it's (per Wikipedia) "a sardonic account of mental illness, alcoholism, insulin shock therapy and electroconvulsive therapy, and the black hole of sports fandom, [with] its central preoccupation [being] a failure to measure up to the American dream." .