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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

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Vintage
06 June 1995
Philip Roth's hilarious novel about sex, growing up, psychoanalysis, now reissued in electric new backlist style

'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 an immediate bestseller upon its publication and elevated Roth to an international literary celebrity.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   194g
ISBN:   9780099399018
ISBN 10:   0099399016
Pages:   288
Publication Date:  
Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Portnoy's Complaint

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)


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