{"product_id":"philip-roth-the-facts-9780679749059","title":"The Facts","description":"The unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize–winnning, bestselling author—\"the most vigorous and truthful of American writers\" (Newsday)—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. 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 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 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":"Used - good","offer_id":53404059337046,"sku":"9780679749059-G","price":4.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9780679749059_1.jpg?v=1784216890","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/philip-roth-the-facts-9780679749059","provider":"momox","version":"1.0","type":"link"}