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"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade
(1866 - 1944),
'Fables in Slang',
1899
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ZIN Product Number: 10653324
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 195 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374152101
Release Date: Jan 10, 1998
| |  | | | In Brief
This book begins with a letter from Roth to his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, asking whether to publish the autobiography. Following a prologue about his parents, Roth recounts "five stages of his life: his New Jersey youth; his college days at Bucknell; meeting his wife-to-be while an instructor at the University of Chicago; his early writing days, including [his conflict with]...the Jewish community; and his life in the Sixties." (Libr J)The book ends with a reply from "Zuckerman" who tells Roth not to publish the manuscript.
| | | | From The Publisher
The Facts is an unconventional autobiography. Roth concentrates on five episodes from his life: his secure city childhood in the 1930s and '40s; 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, in true Rothian fashion, with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.
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