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Winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, Truth Comes in Blows is renowned editor and critic Ted Solotaroff's prizewinning account of a coming of age at once quintessentially American and especially vexed. 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 selfmade 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 themesthe ambivalent love of a son for his victimized mother, the romance of postimmigrant Jews with middle America, sports and masculinity, the guilty imperatives of breaking awayand 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.
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