The Facts (Magill Book Reviews)

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Roth begins with a letter addressed to Nathan Zuckerman, one of his own literary creations, that explains why he is abandoning fiction and that poses a question which resonates for other readers as well: “Is this book any good?” THE FACTS concludes with a thirty-four-page response from Zuckerman that faults his author for being too discreet, too genial, devoid of the furious energy that empowers his finest fictions. Autobiography, claims Zuckerman in another of Roth’s sly exercises in imagination, is “probably the most manipulative of all literary forms.”

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