| The Breast Contributor(s): Roth, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679749012 ISBN-13: 9780679749011 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Fantasy - Humorous - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93043498 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.26" W x 8.04" (0.23 lbs) 98 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |