Portnoy's Complaint: Philip Roth

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.