{"product_id":"2940170059058","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has 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\u003ePhilip 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 in the fifties; 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.    \u003cbr\u003eThe audiobook concludes surprisingly - in true Rothian fashion - with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114976592112,"sku":"2940170059058","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170059058_p0.jpg?v=1763700865","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170059058","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}