Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley

In Misfit the Pulitzer Prize-winning book critic of The Washington Post portrays in full one of the most tormented distinctive and talented writers of the post-war years. Frederick Exleys story which in Yardleys telling reads as if it were a novel reveals a singular personality: raunchy vulgar self-centered and even infantile yet also loyal self-deprecating and unfailingly humorous. Sympathetic and affectionate honest and unsparing Yardleys portrait gives us a man who sacrificed everything in order to write and who became even more than before his own most memorable creation.