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The Facts

A Novelist's Autobiography

By Philip Roth

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| Paperback | 9780679749059

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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 lifeContinue

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.

Critics

  • Philip Roth's playful, unpredictable "Nemesis"

    On the "Books by" pages in Philip Roth's books, he likes to group his titles, often by their lead characters. There are the Zuckerman books, with Nathan Zuckerman leading a long quest to know both his own heart and that of his country (and these them ... (read full critics)

    salon published on Wed, 20 Oct 2010

  • Booker Prize winner: "The Finkler Question"

    When you begin reading Howard Jacobson's "The Finkler Question" -- just announced as this year's winner of the Man Booker Prize -- you may worry that you are headed into a polemic disguised as a novel. The characters spend a lot of time talking about ... (read full critics)

    salon published on Mon, 18 Oct 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 208 Pages
  • Edition: 1st Vintage International Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0679749055
  • ISBN-13: 9780679749059
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Jan 28, 1997
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and eBook
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