The Breast: Philip Roth (Vintage International) - Softcover

Roth, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679749012 ISBN 13: 9780679749011

Publisher: Vintage, 1994

Synopsis

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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Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679749012
• ISBN 13: 9780679749011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96