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EAN: 9780099399018
Published: 06 October 2005
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
The famous confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood.
The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written Guardian
Philip Roth's gift for fantasy, his superb dialogue, his ability to evoke places and atmospheres, makes Portnoy's Complaint at once hilariously, scandalously funny and deeply moving Philip French, 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 Julian Mitchell, New Statesman
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 Tony Tanner, Spectator
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