{"product_id":"books-the-facts-by-philip-roth","title":"The Facts","description":"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.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53508576444689,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780679749059.jpg?v=1778149785","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-the-facts-by-philip-roth","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}