CNN: “Under a tentative legal settlement, readers who said they were defrauded by Frey’s best-seller, “A Million Little Pieces,” can claim refunds, an agreement called unprecedented — and understandable — by a leading publishing attorney.
a million little pieces
Random House Offers Refund for Frey’s ‘Pieces’
By 1.11.06
Book publisher Random House is offering a refund to any customer who purchased James Frey’s novel ‘A Million Little Pieces,’ after allegations surfaced that much of the memoir was fabricated whole cloth by the author. The Reuters story on CNN calls this refund ‘unprecedented,’ probably because this is the first time that anyone thought an autobiographical memoir was actually true.
