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Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1969
Pages
Pages 290

A grown man lies on an analyst's couch pouring out one long confession of guilt, desire and a suffocating mother, from adolescent shame to a disastrous trip to Israel meant to finally set him free.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions.
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth

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