Philip Roth. Third printing before publication. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Photo of Roth on rear jacket flap by Ann Mudge. Unclipped jacket with original price ($6.95) intact. Small tear on top spine of jacket, still presents well with vibrant yellow color. Publication date of 2/69 printed on rear flap.
Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Random House, 1969. Blue cloth with silver author initials on cover and lettering on spine. Other than small stickers on inside of cover and flyleaf page, no other markings or writing throughout the books. Sturdy and clean, 274 pp.
This was Roth's 3rd novel and 4th book. One of Roth's most popular titles, which turned the literary world on its ear when it appeared. The book was made into a very funny 1972 film starring Richard Benjamin.
This was the novel that made Philip Roth. Listed in Time Magazine; 100 Best Modern Novels.
From the NYT: "Roth has taken the archetypal Jewish parents and fixed their exact location in the Jewish son's nightmare, and he has permanently identified the narrative style of the Jewish novel--with its schticks and spiels, its self- deprecations and hallucinations--as a neurotic's cry of guilt and frustration and comic despair from the psychoanalytic couch."
