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 book concludes surprisingly-in true Rothian fashion-with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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 book concludes surprisingly-in true Rothian fashion-with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940192325858 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 10/01/2024 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |