{"product_id":"truth-comes-in-blows-ted-solotaroff-9780393320503","title":"Truth Comes in Blows","description":"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, \u003cem\u003eTruth Comes in Blows\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ted Solotaroff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393320502\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393320503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.48w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2000 pg. 28","brand":"Ted Solotaroff","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587621892351,"sku":"9780393320503","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df665020-cf81-483a-9c97-8af10320192c.jpg?v=1780169332","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/truth-comes-in-blows-ted-solotaroff-9780393320503","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}