The Facts
A Novelist's Autobiography
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2007
Summary
Reissued in electric new backlist style, The Facts is Philip Roth’s idiosyncratic memoir.
How does a novelist write about the facts of his life after spending years fictionalising those facts with irrepressible daring and originality? What becomes of ‘the facts’ after they have been smelted down for art’s sake? In The Facts - Philip Roth’s idiosyncratic autobiography - we find out. Focusing on five episodes in his life, Roth gives a portrait of his secure city childh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099520962 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099520966 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2007 |
| Weight: | 153g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 13mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
A dazzling performance
Vivid, absorbing – Hermione Lee * Independent *
Extraordinarily touching * London Review of Books *
A dazzling performance * New York Times *
The Facts is a lively and serious version of a novelist’s life * New York Review of Books *
A fine account of the origin of Roth’s fiction - Philip Roth continues to be the most vigorous and truthful of American writers * Newsday *
About The Author
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), but it was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers, and American Pastoral (1997) which won the Pulitzer Prize. Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on 22 May 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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