“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
Roth’s well-known novel, once-controversial because of its graphic sexual and religious content, tells the story of Alexander Portnoy, a profoundly troubled young Jewish man struggling with several disquieting obsessions. Narrated from a passionate, highly articulate and frantic stream of consciousness point of view, the book explores themes relating to the nature and purpose of sexuality, Jewishness, and freedom.
New York: Random House, 1969. First printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 274 pages. Dust jacket (price clipped per publisher) in very good condition with only slight edge wear—in protector. Boards and spine clean and bright with some edge wear. Binding tight and square. Pages toned. Includes two vintage literary review clippings and a receipt of purchase from 1991. Wonderful example of this first-first.
