The Breast

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. 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] Near Fine Hardcover in a Near Fine Dust Jacket.