Easton Press: PHILIP ROTH: PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT: SEXY JEWISH CONFESSIONS

Description: Easton Press leather edition of Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Illustrated by Laurence Schwinger, one of the GREAT BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY series, published in 1999. Philip Roth lived from 1933----2018. Bound in deep camel tan leather, the book has ivory French moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. COLLECTOR'S NOTES is included. "Portnoy's Complaint" turned Roth into a major celebrity, sparking a storm of controversy over its explicit and candid treatment of sexuality, including detailed depictions of masturbation using various props including a piece of liver. The novel tells the humorous monologue of "a lust-ridden, mother-addicted young Jewish bachelor," who confesses to his psychoanalyst, Dr. Spievogel, in "intimate, shameful detail, and coarse, abusive language." Portnoy tells his psychiatrist about having sex with "The Monkey," my "old pal and partner in crime. She wasn't bad-looking, this whore, sort of round and dumpy but in her early twenties and with a big pleasant open face---and just stupendous tits." Doctor, just saying her name, just bringing her to mind gives me a hard-on the spot!" In 1998, the MODERN LIBRARY ranked Portnoy's Complaint 52nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Time included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923---2005. The novel is set primarily in New Jersey from the 1940s to the 1960s. 274 pages. I offer combined shipping.

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Location: Walnut Ridge, Arkansas

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