{"product_id":"the-facts-a-novelists-autobiography-9780679749059","title":"The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe unconventional autobiography of the Pulitzer Prize-winnning, bestselling author--\"the most vigorous and truthful of American writers\" (\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e)--who 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\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philip 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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book concludes surprisingly--in true Rothian fashion--with a sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an autobiographer.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians' Prize for \"the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004.\"\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523696038162,"sku":"9780679749059","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a96da053-d169-4efb-8e59-e64cf9f7765e.jpg?v=1731162703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-facts-a-novelists-autobiography-9780679749059","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}