Portnoy's Complaint
Roth's comic novel, told as a confession to a psychoanalyst, of a young man's sexual frustrations and his family.
Why it was banned: Banned in Australia; when Penguin published it there in 1970, it led to obscenity prosecutions in several states.
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At a glance
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A government, A court
- Banned in
- Australia
- Why it was banned
- Banned in Australia; when Penguin published it there in 1970, it led to obscenity prosecutions in several states.
- Author
- Philip Roth
- Topics
- Coming of age, Mothers and sons, Czech fiction, Young men in fiction, Jewish men in fiction, Jewish men
- First published
- 1969
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
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Library record on Open Library
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