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    612-822-4611

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Truth Comes in Blows

Truth Comes in Blows

Solotaroff, Ted

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 0393320502
ISBN13: 9780393320503
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: May 1 2000
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.23
Language: English
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.

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