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The Breast
Paperback
FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780063499980
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Dec 15 2026
Pages: 80
Language: English
Terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning. -- New York Times Book Review
Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes. --Cynthia Ozick
In Philip Roth's brilliant take on The Metamorphosis, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed--into a 155-pound breast.
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 full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis--a daring heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.
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