Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991
The Reality Game
By Robert M. Adams
Patrimony: A True Story
by Philip Roth
Simon and Schuster, 238 pp., $19.95
Describing his father in the early pages of 'a novelist's autobiography' boldly titled The Facts, Philip Roth said, 'Narrative is the form that his knowledge takes, and his repertoire has never been large: family, family, family, Newark, Newark, Newark, Jew, Jew, Jew.' And, Roth adds, with a characteristically sharp reversal: 'Somewhat like mine.'
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