Lifespan of a Fact [Paperback]

An enraging, fascinating, singular book.More than anything,A singularly important meditation on fact and fiction, the imagination and life, fidelity and freedom. Provocative, maddening, and compulsively readable,Thus begins the alternately absorbing and infuriating exercise that isGenius&InA whip-smart, mordantly funny, thought-provoking rumination on journalistic responsibility and literary license.Less a book than a knock-down, drag-out fight between two tenacious combatants over questions of truth, belief, history, myth, memory and forgetting.A fascinating and dramatic power struggle over the intriguing question of what nonfiction should, or can, be.Now a Broadway Play.