Scene in a Philip Roth novel

[gunhilltrain]

This sounds like it should be in Portnoy's Complaint but I seem to remember it from one of the Zuckerman books. The young protagonist visits a burlesque show on a Sunday and during it has intimate relations with his baseball mitt.

I think this is the same book where the last scene is the character as an adult hiring a car to visit his old neighborhood in Newark.

Unfortunately I don't have copies of any of his books.

 

[SamScribble]

This sounds like it should be in Portnoy's Complaint but I seem to remember it from one of the Zuckerman books. The young protagonist visits a burlesque show on a Sunday and during it has intimate relations with his baseball mitt.

I think this is the same book where the last scene is the character as an adult hiring a car to visit his old neighborhood in Newark.

Unfortunately I don't have copies of any of his books.

Sounds vaguely familiar - but from a long time ago. 'Goodbye, Columbus' perhaps?

 

[gunhilltrain]

I don't think it's Goodbye Columbus. There are only a handful of his other books that I remember reading: Portnoy, one of the Zuckerman novels, and American Pastoral.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I don't think it's Goodbye Columbus. There are only a handful of his other books that I remember reading: Portnoy, one of the Zuckerman novels, and American Pastoral.

Sounds like Portnoy's Complaint, although it's many decades since I've read it.

 

[SimonDoom]

It is Portnoy's Complaint. The Empire Burlesque House.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Thank you!

 

[KarissaTsevi]

I prefer the sociopathic genius of Patricia Highsmith's hero Ripley.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I prefer the sociopathic genius of Patricia Highsmith's hero Ripley.

Thank you, I'll have to check that one soon.