{"product_id":"portnoys-complaint-9780063499652","title":"Portnoy's Complaint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE THE ATLANTIC'S GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS OF THE PAST 100 YEARS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint\u003c\/i\u003e scandalized-and forever changed-American literature.\" -The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most controversial.\"\u003ci\u003e -Esquire \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Simply one of the two or three funniest works in American Fiction.\" -\u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortnoy's complaint (pôrt -noizkm-plānt  ) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063499652\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52571281457333,"sku":"9780063499652","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e86e22ce-04de-4226-ab8d-3443cb4464ec.jpg?v=1779862532","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/portnoys-complaint-9780063499652","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}