Have planned for a long time to read this book. Now that I have a copy I will find the time.

Very strange and sometimes humorous. Sometimes disturbing.

Released to my daughter at her home.

"Portnoy's Complaint (port-noiz kem-plant) 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 fur 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."

Trade paperback, (c)1994, 289 pages.

Hilarious! Like a vulgar version of the movie "A Christmas Story."

RELEASE NOTES:

Sending to sarradee as part of a bookrelay. Enjoy!

Ha! Your comment about being a vulgar version of a Christmas Story has just bumped this up several places on the TBR pile.

(For my Time Magazine 100 Best challenge.)