I think he used the 'human interest story' angle, so as just a novel it wouldn't have worked as well I guess. people seem to care a lot more when it's the plight of an actual person.
I wonder how many people bought that book AFTER the little scandal broke? I bet it doubled his sales.
I liked the book, A Million Little Pieces, even though I read it after the "scandal" I also liked Memory Keeper's Daughter
The first thing that I had to read for a Creative Nonfiction course was about Frey...they said that he had attempted to get it pulished over 15 times as a novel, and then finally sold it as a memoir. Hate to be the dissenting opinion, but I thought his writing was atrocious. Much prefered Augusten Burrough's Dry.
it was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee who asked! i loved it! i now have my friend leonard to read. i mgiht bring to cancun with meeeeee!
