{"product_id":"portnoys-complaint-isbn-9780679756453","title":"Portnoy's Complaint","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe groundbreaking novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003ethat originally propelled its author to literary stardom: told in a continuous monologue from patient to psychoanalyst, this masterpiece draws us into the turbulent mind of one lust-ridden young Jewish bachelor named Alexander Portnoy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Deliciously funny . . . absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious . . . a brilliantly vivid reading experience”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Touching as well as hilariously lewd . . . Roth is vibrantly talented”\u003ci\u003e—New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePortnoy'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. Spielvogel says: 'Acts of exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, auto-eroticism and oral coitus are plentiful; as a consequence of the patient's \"morality,\" however, neither fantasy nor act issues in genuine sexual gratification, but rather in overriding feelings of shame and the dread of retribution, particularly in the form of castration.' (Spielvogel, O. \"The Puzzled Penis,\" Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, Vol. XXIV, p. 909.) It is believed by Spielvogel that many of the symptoms can be traced to the bonds obtaining in the mother-child relationship.\"Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He's morally brave, he's politically   brave. And \u003ci\u003ePortnoy\u003c\/i\u003e is part of that bravery.\"\u003cb\u003e —Cynthia Ozick, \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Deliciously   funny...absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious...a brilliantly vivid reading   experience.\"\u003cb\u003e —\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"Simply one of the two or three funniest   works in American fiction.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"Touching as well as hilariously   lewd.... Roth is vibrantly talented...as marvelous a mimic and fantasist as has been   produced by the most verbal group in human history.\" \u003cb\u003e—Alfred Kazin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review   of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ePHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301830480101,"sku":"NP9780679756453","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679756453.jpg?v=1767734985","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/portnoys-complaint-isbn-9780679756453","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}