The facts
a novelist's autobiography
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Author
Publication
1989 - Penguin Books, New York, N.Y., U.S.A, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
48,750 words, Guess
Page Count
195 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefactsnovelists00roth
- ISBN-10014011405X
- ISBN-139780140114058
- Library of Congress Control Number89003736
- Better World BooksO7-BSN-667
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780140114058
- Better World BooksP7-BSR-518
- Open LibraryOL2185756M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS3568.O855 Z467 1989
and 1 more
- LCCPS3568.O855Z467 1989
Description
"The author concentrates on five episodes from his life : his protected childhood during the thirties and forties in Jewish Newark ; his education in the early fifties at gentile Bucknell ; his passionate entanglement as a young university instructor with the angriest person he'd ever met - the "girl of my dreams," Roth calls her ; his clash with a Jewish establishment outraged by the "self-hatred" of Goodbye, Columbus ; and last, his discovery, in the excesses of the sixties, of the manic side to his own talent that led him to write Portnoy's Complaint."--Inside jacket flap.
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