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THE FACTS
A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Philip Roth |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099520966 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099520962 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
4 October, 2007 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts? Focusing on five episodes in his life, the author gives a portrait of his secure city childhood in Newark, through to his first marriage, clashes with the Jewish establishment over Goodbye, Columbus and his writing of Portnoy's Complaint. |
| Synopsis: |
The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction - a work of compelling candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from this 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 book concludes surprisingly - in true Rothian fashion - with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
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