num_pages: 78
description: 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 the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.
language: English
title: The Breast
titlecomplete: The Breast
characters: David Kepesh
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Humor, Literature, Novels, Fantasy, Novella, Literary Fiction, 20th Century
ratings_count: 5230
publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston