A01=Ted Solotaroff
Author_Ted Solotaroff
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393320503
- Weight: 373g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jun 2000
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Ted Solotaroff lives in East Quogue, Long Island, and in Paris
