The Facts
Author: Roth, Philip
ISBN: 9780099520962
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Dec 2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir
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.
ISBN: 9780099520962
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 03 Dec 2007
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback / softback
Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth's idiosyncratic memoir
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.
