The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiograhpy: A Novelist's Autobiography - Tapa blanda

"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

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.