The Breast (First Edition)

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Rust-colored endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher s original price intact on jacket flap ($4.95). 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. The book constitutes 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. Rear Copies.