Publisher :Penguin Books

Title :Portnoy's Complaint
Date of first publication: 1969

Give a summary of the plot:

Alexander Portnoy is a Jewish man who lives in the United States. He's visiting his psychiatrist to talk about his life. He tells him about the life he's had. He starts with his youth. He describes how he grew up in his Jewish environment. He tells the doctor about his father and mother, and how they want him to be. Alexander himself has other ideas. He shocks his parents with his ideas about the Jewish religion and how he wants to be treaten. Later, when he's living on his own, he wants to enjoy sexual life in a extreme way. He has loved (?) many women, and with all of them he has had sex. But when he's in the promised land for all the Jews, Isra‰l, he meets the first woman who he can't get. This breaks him, and so when he's home he appoints a psychiatrist's.

In what period was the story set:

The period is very important because it covers the second world war. In his youth the war...

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