Exley's protagonist in Pages from a Cold Island is, once again, the fictional/factual Fred Exley. And, as before, he peoples his narrative with a cast of characters — the famous, the infamous, the eccentric, and the downright ordinary. Jonathan Yardley says: "Readers who aren't interested in the workings of [Exley's] mind probably won't be interested in his books . . . but what strikes me as singularly impressive is that he makes the reader interested. The true subject of Pages from a Cold Island is not Edmund Wilson or Gloria Steinem or Norman Mailer, but Frederick Exley, and he makes Exley matter."
Exley's interactions with friends from a favorite watering hole on Singer Island and with acquaintances.....
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