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Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
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Description for Portnoy's Complaint
Paperback. A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
'The most outrageously funny book about sex written' Guardian
Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933-)]:A disorder in which strongly-felt ethical and altruistic impulses are perpetually warring with extreme sexual longings, often of a perverse nature.
Portnoy's Complaint tells the tale of young Jewish lawyer Alexander Portnoy and his scandalous sexual confessions to his psychiatrist.
As narrated by Portnoy, he takes the reader on a journey through his childhood to adolescence to present day while articulating his sexual desire, frustration and neurosis in shockingly candid ways.
Hysterically funny and daringly intimate, Portnoy's Complaint was ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099399018
SKU
V9780099399018
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99-99
About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more
Reviews for Portnoy's Complaint
The most scandalous book of the year and probably the decade.
John Sutherland
The Times
The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written
Guardian
A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will ... Read more
John Sutherland
The Times
The most outrageously funny book about sex yet written
Guardian
A hysterically funny monologue which has already added a new prototype to American literature... Anyone who can recall anything of the awesome mystery and humiliating farce of growing up will ... Read more