Scene in a Philip Roth novel

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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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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