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NY 1972 1st (stated) Holt Rinehart. Octavo, hardcover. octavo. Fine in Near Fine DJ.
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"A radical, complex, and moving book...the best example yet of Roth's astonishing prowess when he is at the top of his talent and control." —Ted Solotaroff, Esquire
"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
"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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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.
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The Breast
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Holt, Rinehard and Winston (edition ), 1972
ISBN 10: 0030037166
ISBN 13: 9780030037160
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The Breast
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The Breast
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The Breast
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The Breast
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The Breast
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The Breast
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Holt, Rinehard and Winston, New York, 1972
ISBN 10: 0030037166
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Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Rust-colored endpapers. Near Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Price clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A clean, tight copy. Octavo, 80 pages. Roth's eighth book and first novella, a surreal narrative in which a literature professor awakens to find he has transformed into a giant female breast. Though The Breast itself did not win a major prize, it forms the first part of Roth's so-called "David Kepesh trilogy," later continued with The Professor of Desire and The Dying Animal. Roth, who won the Pulitzer Prize for American Pastoral and multiple PEN/Faulkner Awards, was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1998 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2011 for lifetime achievement. Note: Jacket has light fading on spine. Small sticker shadow on front pastedown. Very light wear to jacket extremities. Seller Inventory # Rear-Copies-Roth-1