Truth Comes in Blows by Ted Solotaroff
Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man—"almost all ego and almost no conscience"—who made a success of his glass business and a wasteland of his home life. Against a crystalline view of American life in the 1930s and '40s, Truth Comes in Blows places its classic themes—the ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of post-immigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity, the guilty imperatives of breaking away—and renews them with a candor Philip Roth praised as "not only a literary achievement but a considerable moral achievement as well." A reading group guide is bound into the paperback.
Ted Solotaroff lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393320503 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393320502 |
| Title | Truth Comes in Blows |
| Author | Ted Solotaroff |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 2000-06-21 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
| Prizes | Winner of PEN/Martha Albrand Award 1999 |
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