| Title:
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THE FACTS
A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
| By: |
Philip Roth |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1446401162 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781446401163 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
8 June, 2011 |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Translated from: |
English |
| Description: |
An unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction - a work of compelling candour and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art. This book concludes - in true Rothian fashion - with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer. |
| Synopsis: |
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality?What becomes of 'the facts' after they have been smelted down for art's sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth's idiosyncratic autobiography - we find out. Focusing on five episodes in his life, Roth gives a portrait of his secure city childhood in Newark, through to his first marriage, clashes with the Jewish establishment over Goodbye, Columbus and his writing of Portnoy's Complaint. In true Rothian style, his fictional self Nathan Zuckerman is allowed the final, coruscating word of reply. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |