The Facts

A Novelist's Autobiography

Philip Roth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:4th Oct '07

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The unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction.

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?

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.

Vivid, absorbing -- Hermione Lee * Independent *
Extraordinarily touching * London Review of Books *
A dazzling performance * New York Times *
The Facts is a lively and serious version of a novelist's life * New York Review of Books *
A fine account of the origin of Roth's fiction - Philip Roth continues to be the most vigorous and truthful of American writers * Newsday *

ISBN: 9780099520962

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm

Weight: 153g

208 pages