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"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"
"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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- Publication date1994
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of American Pastoral that originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.One of The Atlantics Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsDeliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experienceThe New York Times Book ReviewTouching as well as hilariously lewd . . . Roth is vibrantly talentedNew York Review of BooksPortnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933- )] A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's "morality," however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. "The Puzzled Penis," Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship. Thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality and at the same time held back by the iron grip of his childhood, Alexander Portnoy is one of Philip Roth's most intriguing and hilarious characters. "A deliciously funny book, absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious".--The New York Times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780679756453
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