{"product_id":"portnoys-complaint-a-novel-isbn-9780063499652","title":"Portnoy’s Complaint: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, the hilarious and bewildering psycho-sexual novel that sparked international controversy and made Roth a literary celebrity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Portnoy is a deeply neurotic Jewish lawyer and \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint\u003c\/i\u003e is his scandalous confessions to his psychiatrist. He is a sex addict who can’t get laid. A traumatized child who grew into an underdeveloped man. He has countless fantasies, each more disturbed than the last. He is usually too afraid to act on them. He is obsessed with his mother, who used to threaten him with a bread knife, and resentful of his father, who was chronically constipated. He is a compulsive masturbator. Alexander Portnoy is a pleasure-seeking, overly altruistic, catastrophically libidinal, Freudian-wet-dream of a pervert.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“Roth is the bravest writer in the United States. He’s morally brave, he’s politically brave. And \u003cem\u003ePortnoy\u003c\/em\u003e is part of that bravery.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCynthia Ozick, Newsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Deliciously funny…absurd and exuberant, wild and uproarious…a brilliantly vivid reading experience. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American fiction.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The most outrageously funny book about sex written.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Philip Roth’s gift for fantasy, his superb dialogue, his ability to evoke places and atmospheres, make Portnoy’s Complaint once hilariously, scabrously funny and deeply moving.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48588034146533,"sku":"NP9780063499652","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/portnoys-complaint-a-novel-isbn-9780063499652","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}