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The 1962 black comedy classic from the writer of the movie Splash and the Broadway shows Scuba Duba and Steam Bath tells the tale of a suburban Jewish husband who develops a world-class ulcer while struggling to to defend his wife's honor and his own ego against a local bigot. Read by Adam Grupper.

"It was the first novel where a male writer expressed his own fears about sex and what women thought and fantasies that were not the macho stuff. It was really shocking. That pioneering stuff is just taken for granted. It gets forgotten that someone had the guts to do it originally."

Dan Wakefield, New York Times, 11/12/2000

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