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World News: Oprah’s anger fails to derail memoir’s sales
(METRO TORONTO NEWS SERVICES)
Book moves briskly despite
author’s admission of lying
Once again proving true the old adage that
there’s no such thing as bad publicity, disgraced
author James Frey’s A Million Little
Pieces is selling strongly in the wake of
Thursday’s public condemnation of his fabricated
memoir on Oprah, People News Online
reports.
As of yesterday morning, the title remained
No. 4 on the Amazon.com bestseller list — the
same position it held before Oprah Winfrey told
a shell-shocked-looking Frey live on the air that
not only did she “feel duped, but, more importantly,
I feel you betrayed millions of readers.”
At one point early in the interview, Frey
said he still viewed the work as a memoir, not
a novel. By the show’s end Winfrey made him
admit he lied.
“This hasn’t been a great day for me,” he
said. “I feel like I came here and I have been
honest with you. I have, you know, essentially
admitted to ...”
“Lying,” Winfrey interrupted.
“To lying,” he said. “It’s not an easy thing to
do in front of an audience full of people and a
lot of others watching on TV. ... If I come out
of this experience with anything it's being a
better person and learning from my mistakes
and making sure I don’t repeat them.”
Sitting with Frey in side-by-side easy chairs,
Winfrey quizzed the author point-by-point
about his book that described his drug-and-alcohol
addiction and the people hurt by it.
“All the way through the book I altered details
about every one of the characters,” Frey
said, to disguise true identities.
He spent two hours in jail, not 87 days, and
the account of his breaking up with a woman
who later committed suicide happened in a
much shorter period of time, with their separation
occurring while he was taking care of
personal business in North Carolina, not
while he was in jail, he said.
She committed suicide by slashing her
wrists, he said, not by hanging herself.
Asked if The Smoking Gun website, which
first questioned the book, had accurately
characterized the discrepancies, Frey said: “I
think most of what they wrote was pretty accurate,”
adding they did “a good job.”
Posted on Tuesday, January 31 @ 00:00:00 UTC by jcohen
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