Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

Tells of a story of Alexander Portnoy, who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the grip of his unforgettable childhood. From the author of OUR GANG.

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PHILIP ROTH (1933-2018) won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral in 1997. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, previously awarded to John Dos Passos, William Faulkner and Saul Bellow, among others. He twice won the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' prize for the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004 and the W.H. Smith Award for the Best Book of the Year, making Roth the first writer in the forty-six-year history of the prize to win it twice.

In 2005 Roth became the third living American writer to have his works published in a comprehensive, definitive edition by the Library of America. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. In 2012 he won Spain's highest honor, the Prince of Asturias Award, and in 2013 he received France's highest honor, Commander of the Legion of Honor.

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ISBN 13	9780224616522
ISBN 10	0224616528
Title	Portnoy's Complaint
Author	Philip Roth
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	1969-04-17
Number of pages	274
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