The Facts : A Novelist's Autobiography

by Roth, Philip

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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC, 1988. Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Fully-bound in gray cloth. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Gray endpapers. 195pp. Mild crimping to the spine-ends. The extreme top and bottom of either board is faintly sunned. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. It appears unread. The dustjacket, glossy in mylar, has a touch of crinkling to the head of the spine and the upper rear flap-fold. The original price of $17.95 is yet intact. Buy with confidence: all books, gradings, and descriptions are rendered the care of a genuine bibliophile. Money back guarantee.. ISBN: 0-374-15212-8. First Edition, First Printing. ROTH PHILIP 1933 BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY LITERARY.

Book summary

Roth's novelistic autobiography, which he wrote after a breakdown in 1987, zeroes in on five periods in his life that he feels sum up who he is: his childhood, his college days, a passionate and maddening youthful love affair, his alienation of the American Jewish establishment after he published GOODBYE, COLUMBUS, and the 1960s when he changed the direction of his work and wrote PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT. The book begins with a letter to Roth's fictional alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, and ends with a letter from Zuckerman to his creator.