In his skillful, irreverent mesh of fact and fiction, Exley joins a small cohort of his peers — E. L. Doctorow, Norman Mailer — pushing the boundaries of genre in this way. Too, he prefigures a younger group of disaffected, drugged, and disillusioned writers, who likewise call "the dream" a "lie": Jim Carroll, Jay Mclnerney, Brett.....
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