Oprah's last book club pick, touted as a wholly factual autobiography, was A Million Little Pieces. She apparently doesn't have a problem with the fact that it was in fact a big work of fiction (and had it been presented as such, I would have no problem, either).
Now she has picked Elie Wiesel's autobiographical novel 'Night', though careful to note that it is a novelized account of his experiences. Wiesel, I believe, never presented the book as anything else, but many others have since it's publication.
So, she follows up a book presented as fact that turned out to be fiction, with a book generally accepted as fact, though widely known to be fiction (or at least fictionalized - probably more facts than Frey's book).
Posted by Vox at January 16, 2006 07:24 PM | TrackBack | books