Portnoy's Complaint
by Philip Roth
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Fiction.
The groundbreaking novel that propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, Philip Roth's masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lustridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy. Portnoy's Complaint n. [after Alexander Portnoy (1933 )] A disorder in which stronglyfelt...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Fiction.
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Adam Wagner
“Ok everyone, you can take the rest of the month off. Buy some provisions and a big stack of Philip Roth books. Start with The Human Stain or Portnoy’s Complaint and get reading some of the funniest, most intelligent and most excruciatingly honest books ever written. #RIP”
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