Bibliographical Description
88.09.W053: Exley – Pages from a Cold Island
PAGES | FROM | A COLD | ISLAND | FREDERICK EXLEY | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS | A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK
144 leaves, pp. [10] 1–2 3-274 [4]
First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, September 1988
Contents: π1a blurbs, π1b “ALSO BY FREDERICK EXLEY”, π2a title, π2b imprint, π3a dedications, π3b blank, π4a epigraphs, π4b blank, π5a note to the reader, π5b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-274 Pages from a Cold Island, χ1a about the author, χ1b blank, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries list, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list, continued, with order form.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Dave Monteil; exterior rear author photo by Mark Jury.
Copyright: © 1975. ISBN: 0-394-75977-X. Price: $6.95. Pages from a Cold Island was first published by Random House Inc. 1975.
Copies: JDP1.1
Blurbs
- (front cover) Like A Fan’s Notes, this is a glory of a book, a heart’s needle under your skin. – Boston Globe
- 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 Exley 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.
- Lunatic, funny, sad, and infuriating. A work of art. – Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
- 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