The Breast

Language: English

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1972

0030037166 / 9780030037160

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No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; The Dust Jacket is with the price of $4.95 and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has minimal shelf handling. 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. Author Information: Philip Roth was a the prolific, protean, and often blackly comic novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature. During a very long career, Mr. Roth took on many guises — mainly versions of himself — in the exploration of what it means to be an American, a Jew, a writer, a man. He was a champion of Eastern European novelists like Ivan Klima and Bruno Schulz, and also a passionate student of American history and the American vernacular. And more than just about any other writer of his time, he was tireless in his exploration of male sexuality. [NYT Obit] Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.

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Title
The Breast
Author
Roth, Philip (1933-1963)
Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York
Publication year
1972
Condition
Near Fine
Dust jacket
Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0030037166
ISBN 13
9780030037160
Edition
First Edition, First Printing.
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