The Breast - Paperback
by Philip Roth
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Philip RothSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1994-03-15Pages:98
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679749011ISBN-10:679749012UPC:9780679749011Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fantasy, PsychologicalBook Topic:HumorousSize:8.04 x 5.26 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.23Product ID:SCX7126V2Y
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Pastoral Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed--into a 155-pound breast. What follows is "terrific...inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).
A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh's metamorphosis--a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity. "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, author of Antiquities
A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh's metamorphosis--a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity. "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, author of Antiquities
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679749011ISBN-10:679749012UPC:9780679749011Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Fantasy, PsychologicalBook Topic:HumorousSize:8.04 x 5.26 x 0.20 inchesWeight:0.23Product ID:SCX7126V2Y
PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at the White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction. He twice won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN/Faulkner Award three times. In 2005 The Plot Against America received the Society of American Historians' Prize for "the outstanding historical novel on an American theme for 2003-2004." Roth received PEN's two most prestigious awards: in 2006 the PEN/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities Medal at the White House, and was later named the fourth recipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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