Portnoy's Complaint - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671736159 ISBN 13: 9780671736156

Synopsis

With a new Afterword by the author for the 25th Anniversary edition.
"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"
"Deliciously funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious... a brilliantly vivid reading experience."-- "New York Times Book Review"

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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

"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

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671736159
• ISBN 13: 9780671736156
• Binding: Paperback