{"product_id":"9780063499652","title":"Portnoy’s Complaint","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","brand":"Philip Roth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48408415174878,"sku":"9780063499652","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_c8cca144-1fe0-43a2-9277-6e6b7f5493cb.jpg?v=1783133687","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/fr\/products\/9780063499652","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}