The Facts by Philip Roth

The Facts by Philip Roth

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 in the fifties; 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 audiobook concludes surprisingly -- in true Rothian fashion -- with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.

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ISBN 13	9780140114058
ISBN 10	014011405X
Title	The Facts
Author	Philip Roth
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1989-12-07
Number of pages	208
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