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      The Breast

      by Philip Roth
      Published
      Jan 1973
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      Literary Literary
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      David Kepesh Book 1

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      From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Pastoral: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is "terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (The New York Times Book Review).

      A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.

      "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." —Cynthia Ozick, author of Antiquities

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      General Fiction Speculative Fiction

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      Fantasy Literary

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      Mar 1994 Vintage ISBN13 9780679749011 ISBN10 0679749012
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      Apr 1982 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374516994 ISBN10 0374516995
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