num_pages: 74
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 monstrous cockroach, the narrator of Philip Roth's fantasy has become a 155-pound female breast.What follows is a deliriously funny yet moving exploration of the full implications of Kepesh's metamorphosis; audacious, heretical - as darkly hilarious as it is existentially unnerving - making new the silliness, triviality and wonderful meaninglessness of lived human experience.
language: English
title: The Breast
titlecomplete: The Breast
characters: David Kepesh
genres: The United States Of America, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Humor, American, Fantasy, Novels, Novella, Fiction
ratings_count: 5233
publisher: Vintage