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"[Roth] is not an easygoing 'humorist' but a writer whose view of life is harsh, whose intellectual temper is fanatical, who likes his material to get defiant and wild, who works narratives out to a point which in its hysterical sharpness is not unlike a real suffering Jewish mama's....Portnoy in heat is particularly funny. Even when he graduates from the nearest receptacle to other bodies, sex remains his favorite form of protest. In the wildest throes, his bitterness is more in evidence than his passion, and his life remains, as always, furiously mental."Roth, Philip is the author of 'Portnoy's Complaint', published 2007 under ISBN 9781568493244 and ISBN 156849324X.
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