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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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