{"product_id":"9780679749059","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winnning, bestselling author—\"the most vigorous and truthful of American writers\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)—who reshaped our idea of fiction. A work of compelling candor and inventiveness, instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philip Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: 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 \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus;\u003c\/i\u003e and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43013900533821,"sku":"9780679749059","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780679749059_p0.jpg?v=1772083140","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780679749059","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}