Truth Comes in Blows: A Memoir

By Ted Solotaroff

Book Overview

A coming of age story of a boy growing up within a stormy marriage, this book follows the author's search for self-definition through domestic scenarios and the inner reaches of his psyche. It tells of a tough and overbearing father and a loving mother, and the son at the centre of it all.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393046796
• ISBN13: 9780393046793
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Very Good

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.