The Dying Animal

Roth, Phillip

ISBN 10: 0224061933 / ISBN 13: 9780224061933

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2001

About this Item

Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket. Dustjacket now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Mild age-toning to page edges. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 156 pages. The third book in the David Kepesh series.

Seller Inventory # 327456

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dying Animal
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224061933
• ISBN 13: 9780224061933
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st UK Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The Dying Animal

From the Inside Flap

"No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. With these words our most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent cultural critic and star lecturer at a New York college-as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.
The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous and humblingly beautiful 24-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged-helplessly, bitterly, furiously-into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling this descent, Philip Roth performs a breathtaking set of variations on the themes of eros and mortality, license and repression, selfishness and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.