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Portnoy's Complaint
by ROTH, Philip
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Wadsworth, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Tel Aviv, Israel: Schocken Publishing House Ltd, 1972. Hardcover. Hebrew edition of one of Roth's best known books. A close to near fine copy with some sunning to the bottom edge of the boards in a near fine dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and with some very minor wear. Scarce with only 3 copies listed in OCLC.
Synopsis
In 1997 Philip Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral . 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. He has twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. 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.” Recently Roth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. Roth is the only living American novelist to have his work 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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166123
- Title
- Portnoy's Complaint
- Author
- ROTH, Philip
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Schocken Publishing House Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- Literature
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About the Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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Wadsworth, Illinois
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