The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
by Philip Roth
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Author: Philip RothEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01-28
ISBN: 0679749055
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Vintage
Summary of The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
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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