Exley's stratagem of writing an autobiographical novel in the guise of fiction gets at "truth" from an objectively subjective vantage point. This distancing effect proves purposeful: painfully funny events which might easily become maudlin instead amuse, retaining the tone of a confession and thereby ensuring reader empathy. The author's deliberate conflation of "historical" and "narrative" truth also sustains reader interest. We wonder: what "really" happened? What did not?
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