Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9780099520962
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £9.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/10/2007
ISBN: 9780099520962
Length: 208 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 149g
RRP: £9.99
Vivid, absorbing
Extraordinarily touching
A dazzling performance
The Facts is a lively and serious version of a novelist's life
A fine account of the origin of Roth's fiction - Philip Roth continues to be the most vigorous and truthful of American writers