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Philip Roth - The Dying Animal - 9780099422693 - KKD0004580
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The Dying Animal

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Description for The Dying Animal Paperback. David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student.. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 159 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman

David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student of such head-turning beauty, that Kapesh finds himself dragged helplessly into a quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss.

The ... Read more is a virtuoso performance from Philip Roth, following Kapesh through the tumult of erotic lust and the search for freedom, shackled by a mortal human body.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099422693
SKU
KKD0004580
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Philip Roth
Philip Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey on 19 March 1933. The second child of second-generation Americans, Bess and Herman Roth, Roth grew up in the largely Jewish community of Weequahic, a neighbourhood he was to return to time and again in his writing. After graduating from Weequahic High School in 1950, he attended Bucknell University, Pennsylvania and the ... Read more

Reviews for The Dying Animal
Brief and brilliant
Frank Kermode
London Review of Books
A small disturbing masterpiece
New York Review of Books
A fierce, compacted, sometimes brutal meditation on the passing of time and the meaning of freedom
Daily Telegraph
Written with Roth's familiar elegance and composure
Sunday Times
Intense and brilliant... Dazzling and compelling ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Dying Animal


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