{"product_id":"the-facts-a-novelists-autobiography","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilip Roth\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has reshaped our idea of fiction—a work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhilip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his 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 .\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSeptember 1, 1989 by Penguin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Very Good \/ Paperback \/ Philip Roth","offer_id":51260474261802,"sku":"9780140114058","price":34.0,"currency_code":"ILS","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0734\/4039\/5562\/files\/2385387.jpg?v=1773757237","url":"https:\/\/evasusedbooks.co\/products\/the-facts-a-novelists-autobiography","provider":"Eva's Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}