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to becoming a successful, widely respected novelist. The autobiographical section is bookended by two letters, one from Roth to his fictional alter-ego
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called the book "a semi-absorbing semi-autobiography that raises as many questions as it answers."
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Roth interlaces the present with the past and remote past. The book is divided into six chapters:
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This book is included in the fifth volume of Philip Roth's collected works
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Index


1988
ISBN
0-679-74905-5
Philip Roth
Newark, New Jersey
Nathan Zuckerman
Novels and Other Narratives 1986–1991
Library of America
Kirkus Reviews
"THE FACTS | Kirkus Reviews"
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Works
Philip Roth
Goodbye, Columbus
Letting Go
When She Was Good
Portnoy's Complaint
Our Gang
The Great American Novel
My Life as a Man
Sabbath's Theater
The Breast
The Professor of Desire
The Dying Animal
The Facts
Deception
Patrimony

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