num_pages: 242
description: Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece, Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer first appeared in 1945. The hilarious saga of Alfred Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey - a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer, written with what Diane DiPrima called Patchen's "tender silliness" - is sure to inspire a new generation of readers.
language: English
title: Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
titlecomplete: Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer
genres: The United States Of America, Humor, Literature, Poetry, Unfinished, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 248
publisher: New Directions