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Book 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 funnyContinue
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- English Books
- Paperback 96 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0679749012
- ISBN-13: 9780679749011
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Mar 15, 1994
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780679749011 | Paperback | $12.00 | $10.26 | bn.com |
| $12.95 | $8.89 | The Book Depository | ||
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Raiuka88 
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We seem to be on familiar ground in the opening pages of The Breast. The hero, David Alan Kepesh, has Alex Portnoy’s verbal gifts, his irony, his apparent public success, and his private hypochondria. If his life appears more stable than Portnoy’s, s ... (read full critics)