The Facts: A Novelist's AutobiographyThe Facts is a rigorously unfictionalized narrative that portrays Philip Roth unadorned--as young artist, as student, as son, as lover, as husband, as American, as Jew--and candidly examines how close the novels have been to, and how far from, autobiography. |
Contents
Prologue | |
Safe at Home | |
Joe College | |
Girl of My Dreams | |
All in the Family | |
Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin | |
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