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How Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint shocked America
The Independent Portnoy arrived at a moment when New York Jewish comics like Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce were re-writing the rules of stand-up and "one of the dirtiest books ever published" (The New Yorker), born out of the author's well-practised dinner party … 'An astonishing force field': Philip Roth, as remembered by authors and friends Bancroft: Philip Roth deftly explored male lust, Jewish identity, American history and politics Philip Roth, the Mandarin Joker |
