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THE DYING ANIMAL Philip Roth Hardcover 2001 1st/1st SIGNED Like New
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Item specifics
- Seller Notes
- “Like New. Never been read. Pristine copy. Flawless, in archival protection.”
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Modification Description
- Signed
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Inscribed
- Signed
- Yes
- Personalized
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Modified Item
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780618135875
- Book Title
- Dying Animal
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Item Length
- 7.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Erotica / General, Literary
- Item Weight
- 10.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 5 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0618135871
ISBN-13
9780618135875
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1840360
Product Key Features
Book Title
Dying Animal
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2001
Topic
Psychological, Erotica / General, Literary
Genre
Fiction
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
7.5 in
Item Width
5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-054225
Reviews
...a brilliant, demanding and splendidly artful exploration of fundamentals of literature and life, "...a distinguished addition to Roth's increasingly remarkable literary career." The San Francisco Chronicle "(a) gleefully incendiary tale...whose eloquence and rage ultimately persuade us that (we)...bear the grace and the misfortune of belonging to a deeply flawed, tragically vulnerable, unavoidably mortal species." Elle "This little book delivers a chill that you wouldn't get from a Zuckerman novel." Newsday "In the hard, driving, unsentimental sentences, and with superb dialogue...Roth remained true to his youthful vision" Atlantic Monthly "Powerful...Roth's narrator newly illuminates the American body, the American soul, the life of loving and the love of life that has always been so all-consuming in his fiction." The Chicago Tribune "...insidiously disturbing and completely irresistable...All sympathetic readers will find themselves wondering: Is Philip Roth now our finest living novelist?" The Washington Post "...the eponymous dying animal is not only a certain sort of man of a particular generation, but all of us..." Elle "Small in size..large in insight and wisdom...Roth is spitting out brilliant novels every year. He's an American treasure." Orlando Sentinel "...encompasses a broad expanse of human emotion and extends his stunning literary winning streak." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "...a brilliant, demanding and splendidly artful exploration of fundamentals of literature and life" The Baltimore Sun, ...insidiously disturbing and completely irresistable...All sympathetic readers will find themselves wondering: Is Philip Roth now our finest living novelist?, ...the eponymous dying animal is not only a certain sort of man of a particular generation, but all of us..., In the hard, driving, unsentimental sentences, and with superb dialogue...Roth remained true to his youthful vision, Small in size..large in insight and wisdom...Roth is spitting out brilliant novels every year. He's an American treasure., Powerful...Roth's narrator newly illuminates the American body, the American soul, the life of loving and the love of life that has always been so all-consuming in his fiction.
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Edition Description
Teacher's edition
Synopsis
David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America's post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death., David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupte" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America's post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death.
LC Classification Number
PS3568.O855D95 2001
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