| Title | : | The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography |
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| Author | : | Philip Roth |
| Release | : | 2024-10-01 |
| Kind | : | audiobook |
| Genre | : | Biographies & Memoirs |
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| 1 | The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography&nb | Philip Roth |
| The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winning, 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 audiobook concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer. |
