num_pages: 89
description: Librarian note: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.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: 20th Century, American, Novella, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fantasy, The United States Of America, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 5230
publisher: Vintage