THE FACTS - Philip Roth. Read by Mel Foster {FerraBit}

THE FACTS: A NOVELIST'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Philip Roth (1988) Read by . . : Mel Foster Publisher . : Brilliance Audio (2010) ISBN . . . .: 1441805702 | 9781441805706 Format . . .: MP3. 20 tracks, 251 MB Bitrate . . : ~100 kbps (iTunes 10, VBR (highest), Mono, 44.1 kHz) Source . . .: 6 CDs (6hrs 40min) Genre . . . : Nonfiction, Biography, Memoir Unabridged .: Unabridged Combined tracks by chapter. Nicely tagged and labeled, cover scan included. Note: Yet another Brilliance Audio production fail; as always, 99 tracks per CD, random breaks, idi0ts. Thanks for sharing & caring. Cheers, FerraBit Dec 2010 Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Roth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Facts:_A_Novelist's_Autobiography Originally posted: https://thepiratebay.se/user/FerraBit (TPB), Demonoid, KickAssTorrents Please present your FPL card, and comment me some loving. ______________________________________ From BrillianceAudio.com: 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. From Wiki: A book by Philip Roth that traces his life from his childhood in Newark, New Jersey to becoming a successful, widely respected novelist. The autobiographical section is bookended by two letters, one from Roth to his fictional alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman, the other from Zuckerman himself, telling Roth what he sees as problems with the book. Roth interlaces the present with the past and remote past. The book is divided into six chapters: "Prologue" (About his father) "Safe at Home" (Growing up in a Jewish neighborhood) "Joe College" (College life, first love) "Girl of My Dreams" (Chicago years, the woman who became his first wife) "All in the Family" (Defending against Jewish community attacks on his writing) "Now Vee May Perhaps to Begin" (His divorce and death of his first wife) From Publishers Weekly: By offering his memoirs plus a critique of same penned by his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman, Roth here undermines the autobiographical genre as he derailed fictional conventions in The Counterlife. Roth lays bare his private lifeor obscures the really juicy parts because, as Zuckerman says, autobiography may indeed be "the most manipulative of all literary forms." He also manages to beat those nasty book reviewers to the punch, because Zuckerman is the first to recognize that "this isn't you at your most interesting." Bathed here in a quasi-nostalgic glow, the writer's youth and college years are pretty tame; Roth is smart, loquacious but quite the good Jewish boy. The book becomes much more energetic and absorbing when Roth describes his self-destructive relationship with "Josie," a woman who bought a urine specimen from a pregnant black stranger in a park in order to bully Roth into marrying her (which he does after insisting on an abortion), and whom Roth calls "the greatest creative-writing teacher of them all, specialist par excellence in the aesthetics of extremist fiction." Another unlikely font for his imagination was the Jewish community; the uproar over Goodbye, Columbus helped to fuel Portnoy's Complaint and the Zuckerman series. Despite their weaknesses, these reflections would stand even on their own as perspicacious insights by a past master of fiction on a writer's beginnings, quest for freedom and creative muses. With the Zuckerman add-on, the book becomes a unique demonstration of the superiority of fiction over autobiography as an uninhibited, introspective, self-confrontive form.

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Geraldin3 (2011-01-08)

This otherwise exellent torrent is missing disc nr 5. If possible please repost!

philmania (2011-02-15)

Excellent audiobook, superb upload, thanks ever so much FerraBit! LoveU ;-)

philmania (2011-02-15)

@Geraldin3: Disc 5 is perfectly OK!

philmania (2011-02-15)

"99 tracks per CD, random breaks, idi0ts" = I agree entirely - computers & literature: what an incompatibility xD!