Book 1978

PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT

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Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: 1978

Coming of age
Mothers and sons
Czech fiction
Young men in fiction
Jewish men in fiction
Fiction
Jewish men
Sex addicts

Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.