Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/07/1995
ISBN: 9780099477518
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm
Weight: 74g
RRP: £7.99
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.
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 20/07/1995
ISBN: 9780099477518
Length: 96 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm
Weight: 74g
RRP: £7.99
"Terrific...inventive and sane and very funny"
"Roth is a living master"
"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"
"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?"
"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"