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The Facts
Mel Foster
The Facts
Mel Foster
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.
Media | Music CD (Compact Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | August 18, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781501289354 |
Label | BRILLIANCE AUDIO |
Dimensions | 133 × 171 × 19 mm · 150 g (Weight (estimated)) |