Truth Comes in Blows
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0393320502
ISBN13:9780393320503
Release Date:May 2000
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:290 Pages
Weight:1.25 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
This is a well-written evocative memoir. Painful to read in places. Someone once said that we read to know that we are not alone. This sums up my feelings about this book. I'd add that we read in order to get enough distance to empathize. "Turth" is an elegant tale about struggling to grow up in sometimes dire emotional circumstances. It's especially refreshing because it is not a mewling, raging therapy session as so many similar stories are today. It's a painting of a time (Depression era America) and place (industrial burgs of NYC) and an attempt to come to terms with great suffering in a dignified manner. And it's so much more.
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