The Facts
The Facts
Author: Philip Roth
Desc: The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; 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 in true Rothian fashion with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.