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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fictionâ€”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 surprisinglyâ€”in true Rothian fashionâ€”with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
Country USA
Brand Random House Books for Young Readers
Manufacturer Penguin
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 1989-09-01
EANs 9780140114058

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