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.
| ISBN: | 9780679749059 |
| Publication date: | 28th January 1997 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 195 pages |
| Series: | Vintage International |
| Genres: |
Biography: writers Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Biography: general Memoirs |
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.
The Facts features in the following genres: Biography: writers, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Biography: general, Memoirs
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The Facts was written by Philip Roth and published by Vintage Books an imprint of Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
The Facts has 195 pages
Yes it is part of Vintage International series