Summary
Philip Roth’s entire oeuvre - 31 books - to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016.
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 monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth’s fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast.
What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh’s metamorphosis; audacious…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099477518 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099477513 |
| Author: | Philip Roth |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 8 September 1995 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 10mm x 130mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Roth is a living master
Terrific…inventive and sane and very funny * New York Times Book Review *
Roth is a living master – Harold Bloom
Roth’s prose is, as ever, elegant and intelligent, delicate even when at its most crude. It sent me back to Kafka - a brave thing to do, but he stands the comparison well – Margaret Drabble
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
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
A radical, complex, and moving book * Esquire *
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on March 19, 1933, to second-generation Americans Bess and Herman. He grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighborhood his writing returned to time and again.
Roth received the National Book Award for his first book, Goodbye, Columbus (1959). It was his fourth, Portnoy’s Complaint (1969), which secured his reputation as one of America’s finest writers. American Pastoral (1997) won the Pulitzer Prize.
Roth wrote thirty-one books in all, winning the International Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award twice. He was presented with the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal by Presidents Clinton and Obama, respectively.
Roth died aged eighty-five on May 22, 2018, six years after retiring from writing.
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