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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.
| ISBN-13 | 9780374152109 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0374152101 |
| Weight | 3.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.75 x 1.25 x 10.00 In |
| List Price | $75.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 328 pages |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus & Giroux |
| Published On | 1988-11-01 |
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