Philip Roth is the author of twenty-five previous books, including Sabbath's Theater, for which he won the National Book Award, American Pastoral (the Pulitzer Prize), I Married a Communist, The Human Stain and The Dying Animal. Born in 1933, he lives in Connecticut.
This is the book that put onanism on the literary map; but much more than that, it is a riotous account of adolescence under the smothering eye of a Jewish mother. Roth has gone on to write deeper works but none half as exuberant. First published in 1969. (Kirkus UK)