The Breast by Philip Roth audiobook

The Breast

By Philip Roth
Read by David Colacci

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • ISBN: 9798212383714

  • ISBN: 9798212383707

  • ISBN: 9798212383721

Runtime: 1.83 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English

Summary

Summary

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 “terrific…inventive 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.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“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

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Author Bio: Philip Roth

Author Bio: Philip Roth

Philip Roth (1933–2018) was one of the most decorated writers in American history, having won the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award twice, the PEN/Faulkner Award three times, the National Book Award, and many more. He also won the Ambassador Book Award of the English-Speaking Union and in the same year received the National Medal of Arts at the White House. In 2001 he received the highest award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction, given every six years “for the entire work of the recipient.”

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Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 1.83
Audience: Adult
Language: English