The Breast

Roth, Philip

ISBN 10: 1455832383 ISBN 13: 9781455832385

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2011

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. 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

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Review

"Terrific...inventive and sane and very funny" -- John Gardner New York Times Book Review "Roth's prose is, as ever, elegant and intelligent, delicate even when at its most crude. It sent me back to Kafka - a brave thing to do, but he stands the comparison well" -- Margaret Drabble "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 "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 "A radical, complex, and moving book" Esquire

Review

"Terrific...inventive and sane and very funny" (New York Times Book Review)

"Roth is a living master" (Harold Bloom)

"Roth's prose is, as ever, elegant and intelligent, delicate even when at its most crude. It sent me back to Kafka - a brave thing to do, but he stands the comparison well" (Margaret Drabble)

"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)

"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)

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