{"product_id":"the-breast-isbn-9780679749011","title":"The Breast","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e: Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed—into a 155-pound breast. What follows is “terrific…inventive and sane and very funny (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A deliriously funny yet touching exploration of the full implications of David Kepesh's metamorphosis—a daring, heretical book that brings us face to face with the intrinsic strangeness of sex and subjectivity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical; the ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture.\" —Cynthia Ozick, author of \u003ci\u003eAntiquities\u003c\/i\u003e | \"A radical, complex, and moving book...the best example yet of Roth's astonishing   prowess when he is at the top of his talent and control.\" \u003cb\u003e—Ted Solotaroff, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A new shock world of sensual possibility.... Need one say again that Roth is an   admirable novelist who never steps twice into the same river?\" \u003cb\u003e—Anthony Burgess\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Breast\u003c\/i\u003e is terrific...inventive and sane and very funny. The trick which is the   heart of the book is brilliant...and rich with meaning.\"\u003cb\u003e —John Gardner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York   TImes Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Hilarious, serious, visionary, logical, sexual-philosophical;   the ending amazes—the joke takes three steps beyond savagery and satire and turns   into a sublimeness of pity. One knows when one is reading something that will permanently   enter the culture.\" \u003cb\u003e—Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/b\u003e | PHILIP ROTH won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1998 he received the National Medal of Arts at\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe White House and in 2002 the highest award of the American\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAcademy of Arts and Letters, the Gold Medal in Fiction.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eHe twice won the National Book Award and the National\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBook Critics Circle Award. He won the PEN\/Faulkner\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAward three times. In 2005 \u003ci\u003eThe Plot Against America \u003c\/i\u003ereceived\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe Society of American Historians’ Prize for “the outstanding\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehistorical novel on an American theme for 2003–2004.”\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eRoth received PEN’s two most prestigious awards:\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein 2006 the PEN\/Nabokov Award and in 2007 the PEN\/Bellow Award for achievement in American fiction. In 2011 he received the National Humanities\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eMedal at the White House, and was later named the fourth\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erecipient of the Man Booker International Prize. He died in 2018.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304052478181,"sku":"NP9780679749011","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679749011.jpg?v=1767738528","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-breast-isbn-9780679749011","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}