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The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.
Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the "girl of my dreams" Roth calls her); his clash, as a fledgling writer, with a Jewish establishment outraged by Goodbye, Columbus; and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write Portnoy's Complaint. The book concludes surprisingly--in true Rothian fashion--with a sustained assault by the novelist "against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.
Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the thirties and forties; his education in American life at a conventional college; his passionate entanglement, as an ambitious young man, with the angriest person he ever met (the "girl of my dreams" Roth calls her); his clash, as a fledgling writer, with a Jewish establishment outraged by Goodbye, Columbus; and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write Portnoy's Complaint. The book concludes surprisingly--in true Rothian fashion--with a sustained assault by the novelist "against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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- Title The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
- Author Philip Roth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Inte
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 28, 1997
- ISBN 9780679749059 / 0679749055
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Novelists, American - 20th century -, Roth, Philip
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96028807
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- New York Times, 04/27/1997, Page 40
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