Portnoy's Complaint
Author: Roth, Philip
ISBN: 9780099399018
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1995
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 199mm x 132mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
ISBN: 9780099399018
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1995
Pages: 272
Dimensions: 199mm x 132mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
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.
