| The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679749055 ISBN-13: 9780679749059 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $17.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: 'The Facts' is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction--a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 96028807 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 8" (0.48 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has 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. |