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Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known.
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"Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He's morally brave, he's politically brave. And Portnoy is part of that bravery." —Cynthia Ozick, Newsday
"Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious... a brilliantly vivid reading experience."--New York Times Book Review
"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction." —Chicago Sun-Times
"Touching as well as hilariously lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented...as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been produced by the most verbal group in human history." —Alfred Kazin, New York Review of Books
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First UK Edition, Fourth Impression. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge- and dust-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright and clean. Physical description; 274 pages. Notes; Originally published, New York: Random House, 1969. Subjects; Young men -- United States -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction. Jewish men -- United States -- Fiction. Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Sex addiction -- Fiction. American fiction -- 20th century. 3 Kg. Seller Inventory # 454540