{"product_id":"9781466846425","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Facts\u003c\/i\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. \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; 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\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.\u003cp\u003eAuthor Biography: In the 1990s Philip Roth won America's four major literary awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003ePatrimony\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), the PEN\/Faulkner Award for \u003ci\u003eOperation Shylock\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eSabbath's Theater\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union for \u003ci\u003eI Married a Communist\u003c\/i\u003e (1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Counterlife\u003c\/i\u003e (1986) and the National Book Award for his first book, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye, Columbus\u003c\/i\u003e (1959). In 2000 he published \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e, concluding a trilogy that depicts the ideological ethos of postwar America. For \u003ci\u003eThe Human Stain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received his second PEN\/Faulkner Award as well as Britain's W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years \"for the entire work of the recipient.\"  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47179664228592,"sku":"9781466846425","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466846425_p0.jpg?v=1763685909","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466846425","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}