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The Breast

by Philip Roth

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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, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.

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Author: Philip Roth (all their books in stock)
Genre: Fiction, Literary
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995
Pages: 78
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099477518

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