5/21/2023 0 Comments Portnoy's complaint first edition![]() The copyright page should read "First Printing". The book is bound in dark blue cloth board with gold lettering, and has red topstain. ![]() The First Edition Point (FEP) website mentions that all the first edition dust jackets they encountered were clipped, and speculates a wrong first printing of the price. This is the first edition first printing with first state dust jacket that was clipped but should otherwise show $6.95. ![]() But don't pick this book up expecting Wolowitz-like humour the book is far more explicit in its sexual aluusions, including detailed description of masturbation and the crazy things one can use to aid the process. Incidentally, Portnoy and Wolowitz were both Jewish and suffered from some degree of overdue Oedipus complex. Literary wise, Portnoy reminds me of Holden Caulfield, the angry and equally foul-mouthed protagonist in JD Salinger 's "The Catcher in the Rye", except that Portnoy is funnier like Howard Wolowitz of "The Big Bang Theory". The book is a monologue by Alexander Portnoy, as he filled his psychanalyst with details of sexual frustration and misadventure, sometimes in anger, others in despair, and always with coarse expletives. "Portnoy's Complaint", published by Random House in 1969, a decade after Philip Roth's first book " Goodbye, Columbus ", made Roth a literary celebrity. ![]()
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