Full name: The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography

Author: Philip Roth Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780679749059 0679749055

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. Similar books: Patrimony by Philip Roth Ways of Escape by Graham Greene The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster No More Words by Reeve Lindbergh Under a Wing by Reeve Lindbergh Losing Mum and Pup by Christopher Buckley Without Stopping by Paul Bowles Nobody's Son by Luis Alberto Urrea Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing Report from the Interior by Paul Auster Winter Journal by Paul Auster Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux Hidden Lives by Margaret Forster The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne Under My Skin by Doris Lessing