Read by Mel Foster

The Facts is the unconventional autobiography of a writer who has
reshaped our idea of fiction . a work of compelling candor and inventiveness,
instructive particularly in its revelation of the interplay between life and
art. 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 in the fifties; 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 audiobook concludes surprisingly . in true
Rothian fashion . with a sustained assault by the novelist against his
proficiencies as an autobiographer.

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