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. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago, where he received a scholarship to complete his M.A. in English Literature.
In 1959, Roth published Goodbye, Columbus - a collection of stories, and a novella - for which he received the National Book Award. Ten years later, the publication of his fourth novel, Portnoy’s Complaint, brought Roth both critical and commercial success, firmly securing his reputation as one of America’s finest young writers. Roth was the author of thirty-one books, including those that were to follow the fortunes of Nathan Zuckerman, and a fictional narrator named Philip Roth, through which he explored and gave voice to the complexities of the American experience in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries.
Roth’s lasting contribution to literature was widely recognised throughout his lifetime, both in the US and abroad. Among other commendations he was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, the International Man Booker Prize, twice the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, and presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Philip Roth died on 22 May 2018 at the age of eighty-five having retired from writing six years previously.
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