The facts : a novelist's autobiography /
"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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus & Giroux,
1988.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | "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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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/ Basbanes copy contains 3 pieces of ephemera. |
| Physical Description: | 195 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0374152128 : |