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The Dying Animal

by Philip Roth
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Intense exploration of sex, aging, and control.

If you're intrigued by the intertwined complexities of desire, mortality, and intellectual rationalization, Roth's "The Dying Animal" might resonate with you. It's a provocative narrative that digs deep into the psyche of a character caught in the throes of erotic obsession. Roth's candid prose and the story's raw honesty could offer you a reading experience that's as challenging as it is engaging.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The Dying Animal

by Philip Roth
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ISBN: 9780099422693
Authors: Philip Roth
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2006-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Romance
Related Topics: Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.62
(rated by 11741 readers)

Description

'No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex' With these words America's most unflaggingly energetic and morally serious novelist launches perhaps his fiercest book. The speaker is David Kepesh, white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college - as well as an articulate propagandist of the sexual revolution. For years he has made a practice of sleeping with adventurous female students while maintaining an aesthete's critical distance. But now that distance has been annihilated.The agency of Kepesh's undoing is Consuela Castillo, the decorous, humblingly beautiful twenty-four-year-old daughter of Cuban exiles. When he becomes involved with her, Kepesh finds himself dragged helplessly into the quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss. In chronicling the themes of eros and mortality, licence and repression, freedom and sacrifice. The Dying Animal is a burning coal of a book, filled with intellectual heat and not a little danger.
 

Intense exploration of sex, aging, and control.

If you're intrigued by the intertwined complexities of desire, mortality, and intellectual rationalization, Roth's "The Dying Animal" might resonate with you. It's a provocative narrative that digs deep into the psyche of a character caught in the throes of erotic obsession. Roth's candid prose and the story's raw honesty could offer you a reading experience that's as challenging as it is engaging.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.