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The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
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Series: Vintage International
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ISBN10: 0679749055
ISBN13: 9780679749059
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 28 1997
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780679749059
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Jan 28 1997
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winnning, bestselling author--the most vigorous and truthful of American writers (Newsday)--who 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.
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