The Breast

ISBN: 0679749012

Author: Roth, Philip

Condition: Used

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 terrificinventive 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