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The Facts|Philip Roth

The Facts : A Novelist's Autobiography

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The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, 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 audiobook concludes surprisingly--in true Rothian fashion--with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.

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  • ISBN-13: 9798212383882
  • ISBN-10: 9798212383882
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish Date: October 2024

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