Portnoy's Complaint
Along withSaul Bellow'sHerzog, Philip Roth'sPortnoy's Complaintdefined Jewish American literature in the 1960s. Roth's masterpiece takes place on the couch of a psychoanalyst, an appropriate jumping-off place for an insanely comical novel about the Jewish American experience. Roth has written several great books--Goodbye, ColumbusandWhen She Was Goodamong them, but it is perhapsPortnoy's Complaintfor which he is best known.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.