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The Facts
A work of Non-fiction by Philip Roth
Subgenres:
- Autobiography,
- Literary Memoir,
- Jewish American
This book is for you if you're into...
- Autobiographies that blur the line between life and art
- Authors critiquing their own storytelling in real time
- Literary coming-of-age stories set in mid-century America
The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author 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.
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 Goodbye, Columbus; and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write Portnoy's Complaint.
The book concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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Philip Roth at 80
2013
Nemesis
2010
The Humbling
2009
Indignation
2008
Exit Ghost
2007
Everyman
2006
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