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The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; 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, in true Rothian fashion, with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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"The Facts is a lively and serious version of a novelist's life." --Thomas R. Edwards, New York Review of Books "A fine account of the origins of Roth's fiction--Philip Roth continues to be the most vigorous and truthful of American writers." --Phyllis Rose, Newsday
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Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0679749055
- ISBN 13 9780679749059
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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