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        Portnoy's Complaint


        setting

        NYC

        time

        1950s-1960s

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1967

        page count

        274

        difficulty

        Advanced

        main characters

        Alexander Portnoy

        Rip's impressions

        Funny and horny tale of a NYC adolescent; Roth's first big seller

        first line

        She was so deeply imbedded in my conciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.

        last lines

        (spoiler alert)

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