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A Fan's Notes , which is being canonized this month in a Modern Library edition and whose author is the subject of a new biography by Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley, is actually more of a memoir than a novel, and is only incidentally about the former New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford.
"Still, Yardley's book has value as a study of just how small and brief and enigmatic certain writers' lives can be once you've subtracted their work from the equation."
Maureen Dowd bit first, snorting that the "the futile search for the inner Reagan had driven his biographer barking mad" (the New York Times ); Jonathan Yardley (the Washington Post ) retorted that Dowd "seems incapable of a genuinely serious thought" and commanded her and others to "Shut yo' mouf" until they had read the book.
Still, Yardley's book has value as a study of just how small and brief and enigmatic certain writers' lives can be once you've subtracted their work from the equation.
(Read this interview with Cheever in the New York Times [requires free registration], in which she responds to Yardley's comments in the Post : "That's just what he did to Daddy."