The narrator of this novel gives his lover a copy of Let Us Now
The narrator of this novel gives his lover a copy of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men with a card reading, "To the staggering girl," not long after he recites Yeats' "Leda and the Swan" for her during a trip to Vermont. That lover, who sees the narrator as a breakthrough for her and thus calls him "Breakie," has a threesome with the narrator and a prostitute named Lena in Rome. Near the end of the novel the narrator tries to rape the commune- dwelling Naomi but finds himself impotent. Sarah Abbott Maulsby, or "The Pilgrim," and Kay Campbell, or "The Pumpkin," are two of the former lovers of the title character, who also has a relationship with Mary Jane Reed, or "The Monkey." FTP, identify this novel narrated to Dr. Spielvogel by the title character, written by Philip Roth.
The narrator of this novel gives his lover a copy of Let Us Now
{Portnoy’s Complaint}