ROTH, Philip.

Portnoy's Complaint.

New York: Random House , 1969.

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“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you": First Edition of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint; Signed by Him

First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Signed by Philip Roth on the title page. Near fine in a near fine clipped (but not price-clipped) dust jacket without the usual sunning to the spine.

Along with Saul Bellow's Herzog, Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint defined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. 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).