Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir

di Ted Solotaroff (Autore)

WW Norton & Co, 2000

Planted between Ted and a normal boyhood was Ben Solotaroff, as hard a father to placate, defy, and finally accept as can be found in the annals of the American memoir. Tough, bullying, seductive, Ben Solotaroff was a self-made man-"almost all ego and almost no conscience"-who made a success of his glass business and a wasteland of his home life. Against a crystalline view of American life in the 1930s and '40s, Truth Comes in Blows places its classic themes-the ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of post-immigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity, the guilty imperatives of breaking away-and renews them with a candor Philip Roth praised as "not only a literary achievement but a considerable moral achievement as well." A reading group guide is bound into the paperback.

• Autore: Ted Solotaroff
• Editore: WW Norton & Co
• Anno: 2000
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 211 x 140 mm
• Peso: 330 gr.
• EAN: 9780393320503

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