{"product_id":"the-facts-philip-roth-9780679749059","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winnning, bestselling author--\"the most vigorous and truthful of American writers\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)--who reshaped our idea of fiction. A work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus;\u003c\/i\u003e and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book concludes surprisingly--in true Rothian fashion--with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Roth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679749055\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679749059\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/28\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/27\/1997 pg. 40","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981090455807,"sku":"9780679749059","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_895cf9e4-98a1-45fb-b16d-a723aa168a94.jpg?v=1683253604","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-facts-philip-roth-9780679749059","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}