The Breast

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.

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.

• | Author: Philip Roth
• | Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• | Publication Date: Jul 20, 1995
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780099477518
• | ISBN-10: 0099477513