Synopsis
A rigorously unfictionalized narrative that protrays Roth unadorned -- as young artist, as student , as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew -- and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography.
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Review
"Vivid, absorbing" (Hermione Lee Independent)
"Extraordinarily touching" (London Review of Books)
"A dazzling performance" (New York Times)
"The Facts is a lively and serious version of a novelist's life" (New York Review of Books)
"A fine account of the origin of Roth's fiction - Philip Roth continues to be the most vigorous and truthful of American writers" (Newsday)
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Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir
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