The Dying Animal [Lingua inglese]: Philip Roth - Brossura

Roth, Philip

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ISBN 10: 0099422697 ISBN 13: 9780099422693

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2004

Riassunto

'This is a vicious, furious book, unapologetically not of this age - it is also horribly funny and unflinchingly honest' New Statesman

David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student of such head-turning beauty, that Kapesh finds himself dragged helplessly into a quagmire of sexual jealousy and loss.

The Dying Animal is a virtuoso performance from Philip Roth, following Kapesh through the tumult of erotic lust and the search for freedom, shackled by a mortal human body.

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Recensione:

"Brief and brilliant" (Frank Kermode London Review of Books)

"A small disturbing masterpiece" (New York Review of Books)

"A fierce, compacted, sometimes brutal meditation on the passing of time and the meaning of freedom" (Daily Telegraph)

"Written with Roth's familiar elegance and composure" (Sunday Times)

"Intense and brilliant... Dazzling and compelling" (Sunday Herald)

Descrizione del libro:

Philip Roth's entire oeuvre – 31 books – to be reissued in electric new Vintage jackets for October 2016

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0099422697
• ISBN 13: 9780099422693
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176