Author: ROTH, PHILIP
Title: Portnoy's Complaint
Description: NY: Random House, 1969. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, green lettering on spine, author's intitials in green on cover, top edge red, fore-edge deckle. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, Columbus and When She Was Good among them, but it is perhaps Portnoy's Complaint for which he is best known. "Philip Roth has the fineset eye for the details of American life since Sinclair Lewis" (Stanley Edgar Hyman).. Cocked, cover rubbed and mildly worn, lettering faded, top edge spotted, a couple of pages moderately stained, else very good. GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (viii), 274, (1) pp. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: Philip Roth; Fiction; Sex; Psychology; Humor; American Jews; Judaica; First Edition; Novels, Poetry & Literature


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