Item #15596 The Breast. Philip Roth.
The Breast
The Breast

The Breast

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.

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.

Near Fine / Near Fine. Item #15596
ISBN: 9780030037160

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]

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