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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Roth |
ISBN: | 9781409040750 1409040755 |
OCLC Number: | 1004568204 |
Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
Series Title: | Vintage Blue, 5 |
Responsibility: | Philip Roth. |
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The most scandalous book of the year and probably the decade. -- John Sutherland * The Times * The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written * Guardian * A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will find this book compulsive reading. And it is blessedly, extremely funny * Spectator * Philip Roth's gift for fantasy, his superb dialogue, his ability to evoke places and atmospheres, make Portnoy's Complaint at once hilariously, scabrously funny and deeply moving * Financial Times * Alexander Portnoy is a great comic character. He is going to be for many readers what his mother was for him: The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met * New Statesman * Read more...

