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    <body><![CDATA[Philip Roth is undoubtedly one of the 20th centuries best authors. He is also a fairly interesting figure and much of his best work is highly autobiographical as such, it is inevitable that people are interested in the &quot;truth&quot; of his life and what really happened. Roth obliges here, mostly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/310885">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this autobiography of Philip Roth to find out what 'the facts' of his life were as opposed to the version he presents via Zuckerman et al. It is fascinating for what it tells us of Roth's life, as well as for what it doesn't tell (a lot). He starts it off with a letter to Zuckerman and ends i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79276527">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Más allá de las peripecias vividas por Roth en su etapa de formación, las páginas más interesantes de este libro se concentran en su último apartado, en el que Zuckermann, protagonista de algunas de las novelas del autor, lanza una réplica cargada de lúcidas reflexiones que ponen en tela de ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77087474">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This wasn't the book I hoped it would be, though it did show just how closely his books are drawn from his life. Zuckerman (in The Facts) got it right with his final review. Novelists should stick to fiction, I suppose. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Fuck you, Roth.<br/><br/>Almost answered a bunch of my questions.<br/><br/>And then he ends it with a 30-page letter from Zuckerman to himself that basically undoes everything he said.<br/><br/>This book was a waste of time.<br/><br/>And I enjoyed it.]]></body>
    
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