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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Novels are not written under oath, whether to a degree he painted fiction as non-fiction... the story is the same as it was before, it says the same words.
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I was reading something about this last night - -and I'm not sure that Frey is 100 percent to blame - he originally tried to sell it as a work of fiction to numerous publishers -- all of which turned him down - he went to his current publisher and either at the urging of the publisher or himself (that part is unclear) it was then turned into a memoir...
if you market something as a memoir and it's a work of fiction -- well that's misleading and is a lie... (even the book Memoirs of geisha said on the cover that it was a work of fiction....)
There was another Oprah book that Oprah had it as a selection - then dropped it as a selection (the connections or the commitments or something like that - i think the author was jonathan franzen - the book sucked - whatever it was) but the publicity helped boost sales...
Publicity will help this books sales - people will read it to see what the hubbub is all about...