Portnoy's Complaint

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449202917 ISBN 13: 9780449202913

Publisher: Fawcett Books, 1985

A New York lawyer, dominated by a demanding Jewish mother, plays out a sexual revenge in fact and fantasy

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