The Breast - Softcover

Roth, Philip

3.18

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140076794 ISBN 13: 9780140076790

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

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Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a giant beetle, the narrator of Philip Roth's richly conceived fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast. What follows is a deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity."

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"A radical, complex, and moving book...the best example yet of Roth's astonishing prowess when he is at the top of his talent and control." Ted Solotaroff, Esquire "A new shock world of sensual possibility.... Need one say again that Roth is an admirable novelist who never steps twice into the same river?" Anthony Burgess "The Breast is terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning." John Gardner, The New York TImes Book Review "Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture." Cynthia Ozick"

Book Description:

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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