Truth Comes in Blows (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393320503)

Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man--"almost all ego and almost no conscience"--who made a success of his glass business and a wasteland of his home life. Against a crystalline view of American life in the 1930s and '40s, Truth Comes in Blows places its classic themes--the ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of post-immigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity, the guilty imperatives of breaking away--and renews them with a candor Philip Roth praised as "not only a literary achievement but a considerable moral achievement as well." A reading group guide is bound into the paperback.

Author: Ted Solotaroff
ISBN-10: 0393320502
ISBN-13: 9780393320503
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2000
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.23h x 5.48w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/18/2000 pg. 28