{"product_id":"9780679749059","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Facts\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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; 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 \u003cb\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/b\u003e; and his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of an unmined side to his talent that led him to write \u003cb\u003ePortnoy's Complaint\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a sustained assault by the novelist \u003ci\u003eagainst\u003c\/i\u003e his proficiencies as an autobiographer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027317637360,"sku":"9780679749059","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780679749059_p0.jpg?v=1763608179","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780679749059","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}