FACTS, THE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　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; 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 book concludes surprisingly—in true Rothian fashion—with a
sustained assault by the novelist against his proficiencies as an
autobiographer.

　　In the 1990s Philip Roth won America’s four major literary
awards in succession: the National Book Critics Circle Award for
Patrimony (1991), the PEN/Faulkner Award for Operation
Shylock (1993), the National Book Award for Sabbath’s
Theater (1995), and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction for
American Pastoral (1997). He won the Ambassador Book Award
of the English-Speaking Union for I Married a Communist
(1998); in the same year he received the National Medal of Arts at
the White House. Previously he won the National Book Critics Circle
Award for The Counterlife (1986) and the National Book Award
for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). In 2000 he
published The Human Stain, concluding a trilogy that depicts
the ideological ethos of postwar America. For The Human
Stain Roth received his second PEN/Faulkner Award as well as
Britain’s W. H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year. In 2001
he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and
Letters, the Gold Medal in fiction, given every six years “for the
entire work of the recipient.”