Portnoy's Complaint - Hardcover

Roth, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375507930 ISBN 13: 9780375507939

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

New York lawyer Alexander Portnoy, a young man dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fantasy, in a special anniversary edition of the critically acclaimed novel. Reissue. 10,000 first printing.

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Review:

" 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"

"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"

"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

From the Publisher:

'The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written' Guardian

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375507930
• ISBN 13: 9780375507939
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274